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Liam Gillespie, Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne

Blaming ‘extremists’ for March For Australia rallies lets ‘mainstream’ Australia off the hook

As the fallout from the so-called March For Australia rallies continues, many observers are saying Australia has reached a turning point, suggesting the weekend’s events signal a new era of far-right normalisation and political violence.

Given the overt racism of the event and the neo-Nazi attack on Camp Sovereignty, this is entirely understandable.

A deeper, more difficult, truth

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