The opposition’s home affairs spokesperson, Kristina Keneally, welcomed the move, saying that Australia was “the last of the Five Eyes countries to designate a rightwing extremist group as a terrorist organisation”. “For a year, Labor has been calling for the Morrison government to take seriously the growing terrorist threat from violent rightwing extremism,” Keneally said. “The Sonnenkrieg Division is a UK-based rightwing extremist group, which adheres to a violent white supremacist ideology. It was proscribed by the UK over a year ago.” Keneally noted that there were several other rightwing extremist groups, some with direct links to Australian groups, that had already been proscribed by partners in the other Five Eyes countries – which include Canada, the US, UK and New Zealand.