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The AfD, now the second-largest party in the German government, is on a similar electoral trajectory to Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Echoes of 1930s Europe grow ever louder. We ignore them at our peril

The far right is on the march again in Germany. The parallels with the rise of Hitler almost a century ago are everywhere.

  • Dennis Glover

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Steve Bannon speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

French far-right leader cancels speech after Bannon gives ‘Nazi salute’

Steve Bannon said his gesture was just a “wave” of thanks, and accused National Rally leader Jordan Bardella of “wetting his pants like a little child”.

  • Michael Koziol
Burgess

The rest of the decade will be even worse: ASIO boss issues dire terror threat warning

ASIO boss Mike Burgess has declassified a previously secret analysis to reveal the nation has never confronted so many serious threats at once.

  • Matthew Knott
Candles and flowers are placed at the site of stabbing a day after an attack that left a 14-year-old dead and five others injured.

Austrian knife attack suspect radicalised himself on TikTok within three months, officials say

The case highlights the challenge of preventing so-called lone-wolf attacks, when an attacker acts without outside help.

  • Francois Murphy
Jacob Hersant, in black and red T-shirt, and others conduct fitness drills in Elwood

White supremacist bootcamp takes over Elwood beach

It looked like any other park fitness bootcamp. But they were white supremacists.

  • Staff Reporters
caravan

Crime gangs attempted to use caravan explosives for leverage over police

The blast material discovered in the caravan was up to 40 years old, a key clue about the origins of the plot.

  • David Crowe and Perry Duffin
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The NSW Health Department has called in police after footage surfaced appearing to show hospital workers bragging about killing Israeli patients.

Footage appears to show NSW nurses bragging about killing Israeli patients

Two nurses who apparently threatened to kill Israeli patients will be sacked from Bankstown Hospital after allegedly making the shocking statements while on shift.

  • Matthew Knott, Jessica McSweeney and Kate Aubusson
The Sari Club site last month. The sign says the land is now owned by the Badung Regency local government.

After years of bad blood, there’s finally action at Bali’s desolate Sari Club site

Years of efforts by Australian and Indonesian families to transform the Bali bombing site into something befitting its significance have come to naught – until now.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Members of the National Socialist Network are arrested as they hold a counter-protest on Australia Day in Adelaide.

Australian neo-Nazis suspended from X

White supremacists Thomas Sewell and Blair Cottrell had their accounts suspended on Tuesday, two days after this masthead reported neo-Nazism was thriving on the platform.

  • Paul Sakkal
Randwick council cleaners remove antisemitic graffiti from a car on Sunday after a spate of attacks on houses and vehicles in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

Antisemitism stoush to dominate parliament as government blacklists white supremacist channel

The government has slapped first-of-their-kind counter-terrorism sanctions on the Terrorgram online network as part of a crackdown on antisemitism.

  • Matthew Knott and Sally Rawsthorne

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