Were last year's killings in remote Wieambilla, Queensland, the result of a new age of radicalisation? On November 28, 2022, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's director-general of security, Mike Burgess, stood inside ASIO's heavily guarded headquarters on Lake Burley Griffin with the minister for home affairs, Clare O'Neil, delivering a press conference on the national terror threat. Burgess replied to a question regarding the relative threats posed by violent extremism motivated by religion on the one hand and by ideology on the other, by explaining that they remained at 'near parity'.

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