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Melissa Meehan

Push for transparent national hate-crime database

A Senate committee is probing right-wing extremist movements and what can be done to counteract them (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

There are warnings far-right extremism is accelerating across Australia as experts lobby for a national, independent hate-crime database to paint a clearer picture of the threat the nation is facing. 

The matter was discussed during a Senate, Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee hearing on Monday.

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