The Newcastle Herald on June 30 reported on Australia’s proscribing of far-right extremist group Terrorgram, which has been linked to a plot to kill NSW Labor MP Tim Crakanthorp last year.

Terrorgram encourages lone-wolf attacks, and it is reassuring to know it has been identified. The essence of lone-wolf attacks is deception and surprise.

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By contrast, Hamas, which the Australian government proscribed in 2001 as a terrorist organisation under the Criminal Code 1995, has never carried out a terror attack. In its more than 40 years of existence, it has exercised its legal right under international law to self-defence against military occupation.

The Zionist Israeli state, by contrast, has an extensive history, over a century, of bombing other countries and extra-judicial killings.

Former Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd revealed in his

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