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Paul Spoonley, Distinguished Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University

The extremism visible at the parliament protest has been growing in NZ for years – is enough being done?

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It has been interesting to watch media and public commentators come to the realisation – sometimes slowly – that the siege of parliament was not simply an anti-vaccine mandate “protest” but something with more sinister elements.

While researchers and journalists have noted the toxicity of some of the politics on display, as well as the presence of extreme fringe activists and groups, it should have come as little surprise.

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