Lydia Khalil

ANALYSIS: When ASIO chief Mike Burgess revealed foreign nations could be plotting to assassinate dissidents on Australian soil, it was a warning as much to the bad actors as to the public.

New terminology introduced by ASIO to describe violent extremist groups carefully avoids ‘right- or left-wing’ descriptors. But in not calling out right-wing extremism, is the national security agency guilty of double standards and bowing to the conservative side of politics?