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Since an Australian gunman killed 51 worshippers at mosques in New Zealand s Christchurch in 2019, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has said the far-right threat had increased and become an enduring threat .
Sonnenkrieg Division, a UK-based neo-Nazi group, will be effectively banned in Australia once its listing as a terror group is confirmed.
After that, the outfit will become the first far-right organisation to be listed as a terror group in Australia.
The Department of Home Affairs signalled that the Sonnenkrieg Division would join the current list of 27 proscribed organisations, which have so far been exclusively jihadist or separatist groups linked to the Middle East and Central Asia.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tapped John Woodcock, a former Labour MP who now sits in the House of Lords as Lord Walney, to look into the claims that far-left.