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Haipei Yu built a thriving Chinese medicine practice during her first 10 years in Australia, but when the pandemic hit she wasn t able to treat patients and her income vanished for months.
Her clinic, set up in the front of her home in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Mitcham, relied on being able to see and interact with people, so work had to all but stop under Victoria s COVID-19 restrictions.
Since the slow days of the lockdown, patients have started returning, and that will benefit not just Ms Yu, but the wider economy and her community, according to a new report released on Wednesday.
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While the threat of violence inspired by Islamic extremism remained the domestic security agency’s greatest concern, ASIO last year told this masthead extreme right-wing groups and individuals represented “a serious, increasing and evolving threat to security”.
“The extreme and violent right wing has been in ASIO’s sights for many decades and we have maintained continuous and dedicated resources to this area,” an ASIO spokesperson said in August. “Unfortunately, extreme right-wing groups are more organised, sophisticated and security conscious than before.”
Labor later on Thursday moved a Senate motion seeking to condemn far-right extremism which included criticism of Liberal MP Craig Kelly and Nationals MP George Christensen for claiming voter fraud in the US election.