Australian anti-terrorism laws and regulations.
Wikipedia states: “In 2002, a range of terrorist organisation offences were enacted "enabling Australian governments to deal with organisations involved in terrorism.” For listing, an organisation may be found to be such by a court as part of a prosecution for a terrorist offence or the same may be specified in regulations upon the motion of the Attorney-General of Australia. Under Australian law it is an offense to materially support or be supported by such organisations. As of January 2015 there are 20 organisations listed as terrorist organisations by the Australian government. All but one of those organisations are associated to Islamic ideology”. The 2006 list did not include a Hamas group (see “List of organizations outlawed in Australia for terrorism”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisations_outlawed_in_Australia_for_terrorism ).
The Australian Government in “Listed terrorist organizations” lists 20 organizations, all of Muslim-origin, of which one, the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), while operating in a Muslim region, presumably has a secular as well as socialist outlook (Australian Government, “Listed terrorist organizations”: http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/Listedterroristorganisations/Pages/default.aspx ).
Some key points can be made:
1. It is obviously vital for the safety of Australians for Australian Intelligence to keep tabs on non-state terrorists and to curb their activities and any support base by sensible, informed proscription of organizations involved in terrorism. However a crucial aspect of anti-terrorism is minimizing provocation of terrorist acts. Thus there are 1,500 million Muslims between Australia and Mother England and Muslim Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim nation, is our next door neighbour. It should be a no brainer that Australia should go out of its way to be nice to Muslims. Unfortunately, a Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted and subverted, US lackey Australia has adopted the disastrous course of backing the Zionist-promoted US War on Muslims for oil and hegemony abroad (about 40 million Muslim deaths from violence or imposed deprivation since 1990 and about 40 million Muslim refugees) and an escalating anti-Arab anti-Semitism and Islamophobia at home that has now become entrenched in Australian society. “Firebrand Muslim clerics” are obviously unhelpful for anti-terrorism but vastly more dangerous are the hordes of Mainstream journalist, politician, academic and lobbyist Islamophobes and warmongers. Indeed it was reported that the head of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organization (ASIO) had asked some conservative politicians to tone down their unhelpful anti-Muslim rhetoric . Thus the militant, extremist , right-wing newspaper The Australian reported: “ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis has phoned Coalition politicians to urge them to use the soothing language favoured by Malcolm Turnbull in their public discussion of Islam. In what is thought to be an unprecedented intervention in politics by a head of the spy agency, Mr Lewis is said to have told the MPs that their more robust comments risked becoming a danger to national security. It is believed the Office of the Prime Minister has been involved in arranging for these phone calls to take place. A number of Liberals are angry at what they see as an improper intervention by the ASIO head into legitimate political issues” (see Greg Sheridan, “ASIO chide Duncan is “playing politics” on Islam” , The Australian, 17 December 2015: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/terror/asio-chief-duncan-lewis-is-playing-politics-on-islam/news-story/bdc053a5912b0b597b87e7f6dbbf4892 ).
2. Until 2014, there had been zero deaths ever in Australia due to Muslim-origin non-state terrorism whereas 300 Australians are murdered each year, about 80 by their former or present partners, and 85,000 Australians die preventably each year from a variety of preventable causes. 2 Australians were murdered by politically-motivated Muslims in 2014-2015, this reflecting 25 years of increasingly strident anti-Arab anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and xenophobia in Australia and the West associated with the Zionist -promoted US War on Muslims that has killed 32 million Muslims through violence, 5 million, or through imposed deprivation, 27 million, since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity in 2001. One supposes that the murder of women by their partners or ex-partners would increase dramatically if there were a comparable Mainstream campaign of hatred towards women (see Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115A.htm ; Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ; and “Experts: US did 9-11”: https://sites.google.com/site/expertsusdid911/ ).
3. One can estimate that 85,000 Australians die preventably each year, and that 1.2 million have died thus since the US Government's false-flag 9-11 atrocity (3,000 killed) as compared to only 8 Australian deaths by terrorists (2 due to Muslims) in the last 40 years. Yet the major Australian parties, the currently ruling Coalition and Opposition Labor (aka the Lib-Labs or Liberal-Laborals) have committed to a long-term accrual cost of about $10 billion annually to the Islamophobic War on Terror and killing over 30 million Muslims abroad this century alone rather than keeping 1.2 million Australians alive at home. Australian state terrorism indeed Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).
4. The mechanism for proscription simply involves the say so of the Australian Attorney General but such proscription carries huge legal threats (legal terrorism). Thus in an increasingly fascist Australia there are now draconian custodial punishments ranging up to life imprisonment for seeing, reading, accessing, saying, writing, supporting, or advocating things that the Government doesn’t like but such draconian protocols can be simply emplaced by a Lib-Lab (Liberal Party -National Party Coalition or Labor Party) Attorney General, noting that the sine qua non of the anti-Arab anti-Semitic, serial war criminal, state terrorist Lib-Labs is craven support for US state terrorism, UK state terrorism and Israeli state terrorism (see Gideon Polya, “ Terror Hysteria - Draconian New Australian Anti-Terrorism Laws Target Journalists, Muslims And Human Rights”, Countercurrents, 08 October, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya0810114.htm and Bill Rowlings, “I could go to jail for this next month”, Civil Liberties Australia, 26 August 2014: http://www.cla.asn.au/News/i-could-go-to-jail-for-this-next-month/ ).
5. All the proscribed organizations are of Muslim origin, this reflecting the realities of the Zionist-backed US War on Muslims (32 million Muslims killed by violence , 5 million, or through imposed deprivation, 2.7 million, in 20 countries invaded by the US Alliance since the US Government’s 9-11 false flag atrocity; see Gideon Polya, “Paris Atrocity Context: 27 Million Muslim Avoidable Deaths From Imposed Deprivation In 20 Countries Violated By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 22 November, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya221115A.htm ). Absent, for example, are the Nazi-collaborating and neo-Nazi Croatian Ustase (responsible for immense genocidal atrocities in WW2 and terrorist atrocities after WW2) and the Zionist Irgun (that collaborated with the Nazis before and during WW2, that killed Allied servicemen before, during and after WW2,was responsible for mass murder and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and which was heavily involved in the ongoing Palestinian Genocide).
6. Some of the organizations referred to in the Australian list of proscribed terrorist organizations, namely Al Shabaab, Hamas, Hezbollah and the Kurdish PKK are Indigenous organizations devoted to national independence from state terrorist invaders and having considerable local support. Thus Hamas had an overwhelming victory in the Occupied Palestinian elections held in 2006 under Israeli guns (the only genuinely democratic elections ever held in Palestine, noting that Australia-backed Apartheid Israel is a democracy-by-genocide that excludes 6 million Palestinians from living in their own country and only permits human rights and the vote to 28% of its 6 million Palestinian subjects i.e. to 17 million Palestinian Israelis who nevertheless live as Third Class citizens under Nazi-style Apartheid Israeli race laws; see “Hamas”, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas ) .
7. No Muslim or non-Muslim countries involved in state terrorism are on the list – there is no recognition of the appalling and deadly realities of US state terrorism, UK state terrorism, French state terrorism, German state terrorism, Canadian state terrorism, Australian state terrorism, Egyptian state terrorism, Ethiopian state terrorism, Kenyan state terrorism, Saudi Arabian state terrorism, Qatari state terrorism, UAE state terrorism, Turkish state terrorism, and Apartheid Israeli state terrorism. Yet, for example, Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, in addition to being variously involved in state terrorism by invasion of other countries, have all played key roles in variously financing and supporting Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq.
8. No people or parties involved in state terrorism (state crime) are listed . Yet, for example, former President of the Liberal party of Australia, John Valder has demanded that former Australian PM John Howard be charged over the illegal invasion of Iraq: “Bush, Blair, and Howard, as leaders of the three members of the coalition of the willing, inflicted enormous suffering on the people of Iraq. And, as such, they are criminals. I believe the only deterrent to a repetition of the Iraq situation is punishment in some form as war criminals" (John Valder quoted in “Howard is a war criminal, says former colleague”, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 July, 2004: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/18/1090089035899.html .
9. It is well-established that Australian Intelligence spies on Australians and the World for UK state terrorism, Israeli state terrorism and US state terrorism, and has been involved in illegal, criminal and state terrorist dirty tricks (most appallingly , helping the CIA overthrow the democratically–elected Allende regime in Chile) (see Gideon Polya, “50 Ways Australian Intelligence Spies On Australia And The World For UK , Israeli And US State Terrorism”, Countercurrents, 11 December, 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya111213.htm ).
10. Israeli crimes, whether of Israeli State Terrorism (IST) or Israeli Organized Crime (IOC), have been a no-go area in the Western democracies for decades due to the power of the Israel Lobby as exemplified by the routine defamation of “anti-Semite” applied to anyone (whether Jewish or non-Jewish) objecting to gross Israeli violations of International Law, UN General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions, International Court of Justice decisions, and International Humanitarian Conventions. Israelis and dual citizen Israeli-Australian have carte blanche to do terrorism and mainstream media reports reveal such crimes directed against Australians, including imprisoning, kidnapping, shooting, killing, torturing, mangling, bombing, robbing and defaming Australian citizens and the repeated large-scale forging of Australian passports for terrorist purposes. A carefully researched analysis concerned with 50 areas of racist Zionist (RZ), Israeli Organized Crime (IOC) and Israeli State Terrorism (IST) threats to Australians was carefully prepared for dissemination to Australian law officers, MPs, journalists, academics and other citizens in the public and national interest. Unfortunately the Silence has been Deafening in US lackey, pro-Zionist, Neocon American and Zionist Imperialist (NAZI)-perverted an subverted Australia. Zinost beholden ASIO or Australian Governments won’t act so it is up to ordinary Australians to (a) sideline traitorous racist Zionist state terrorists and non-state terrorists and their supporters from public life (as has already happened in relation to like racists such as Nazi, neo-Nazis, Apartheiders and the Ku Klux Klan) , and (b) apply boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Apartheid Israel and its supporters as were successfully applied against US-, UK- and Apartheid Israel-backed Apartheid South Africa (see Gideon Polya, “Racist Zionism and Israeli State Terrorism threats to Australia and Humanity”, Palestinian Genocide: https://sites.google.com/site/palestiniangenocide/racist-zionism-and-israeli ).
11. Fundamental to stopping violent extremism is opposition to violence per se and stopping provocation of such criminal atrocities by war criminal, state criminal, invasion, occupation, and genocidal devastation of Muslim countries from Mauretania in the west to the Philippines in the east by US Alliance state terrorists . While the US Alliance state terrorists portray the US War on Terror as a War on Extremist Islam, the reality is that it is a Zionist-backed, state terrorist War on Muslims for resources and hegemony. The US Alliance having removed secular Muslim regimes in Afghanistan (1978), Iran (1953), Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) - and doing its best to do so in Syria since 2011 – dishonestly exploits the reality of resistance to the US Alliance state terrorism using fundamentalist Islam as a cohesive cement.
12. From a secular, scientific , Humanist perspective, the issue is not fundamentalist religion (with which we nevertheless disagree as atheists or agnostics) but violent extremism. There will always be a violence-disposed minority in society as reflected in the homicide rate of circa 50 per million of population per year in the US or about 13 per million per year in Australia. However, in Australia even tougher gun control laws and public education to minimize hatred and violence would be effective anti-terrorism measures.