State in Australia seeks to ban Nazi symbols

Counterterrorism intelligence chief Mike Burgess warned last month that Australians as young as 16 were being radicalized to support a white power race war, and that half of the top national counterterrorism cases from the Security Intelligence Organization of Australia now involve neo-Nazi cells. and other ideologically motivated groups.

Burgess, ASIO CEO, told the media that the change in threat to national security from religiously motivated terrorism was being fueled by misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic and other global events.