“Far left” extremism must be included in Bondi inquiry’s terms of reference: Ley

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/far-left-extremism-must-be-included-in-bondi-inquirys-terms-of-reference-ley/news-story/fdd1d82a70b9ceca1d14c55678a7d5a0

36 Comments

  1. Adorable-Metal3824 on

    So we need to look into far left extremisim in a royal commision into the far-right Islamic terror attack in Sydney?

    Sussan Ley more and more seems like an irrate babling fool. I can’t see how see could even finish the month let alone the year as oppositon leader. But maybe that’s the hand they want to play a babling irrate fool with no policy.

  2. IceDonkey9036 on

    https://theconversation.com/right-wing-extremist-violence-is-more-frequent-and-more-deadly-than-left-wing-violence-what-the-data-shows-265367

    “Right-wing extremist violence has been more frequent and more lethal than left-wing violence”

    https://www.start.umd.edu/publication/comparison-political-violence-left-wing-right-wing-and-islamist-extremists-united

    “Across both datasets, we find that radical acts perpetrated by individuals associated with left-wing causes are less likely to be violent.”

    https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/server/api/core/bitstreams/68864f1c-97b5-4bb9-982e-5a188a888a46/content

    “First, data on extremists in the United States showed
    that left-wing radicals were less likely to use violence than right-wing and Islamist radicals.”

    I’ll just leave this here

  3. >The misspeak comes as Ms Ley referred to Russia as the Soviet Union while live on air last week, saying: “The government should always stand ready to support the illegal occupation of Ukraine by the USSR, by the Soviet Union.”

    She’s starting to feel the pressure mounting. Get your lettuces out.

  4. South_Can_2944 on

    And so begins the Liberal-National Party attempt at Republican style of politics to push anything on the left as evil and against humanity. It will start with extremism but they will soon claim everything not aligning with Liberal-National Party ideology as extremist.

  5. TheRealDarthMinogue on

    What a disgrace. She had an opportunity, when becoming opposition leader, to reset the Libs and has squandered it at every turn. She is a duplicitous seat-warmer.

  6. Ah yes, all those super violent scumbags wanting better public schools and more affordable healthcare/housing

  7. AggravatedKangaroo on

    Ha ha ha.

    This shit is writing itself. I said they would begin to try and start restricting an RC scope (should an RC ever happen) to suit an agenda……and the agenda is slowly exposing itself.

    Ley did not give 2 shits about the dead. it was all point scoring from day one.

    Relax Ley, you will never lead the Liberals to an election win, no matter who you answer to.

  8. Optimal_Cupcake2159 on

    What is far left extremism… calling out genocide? Noticing hunger as a weapon – collective punishment – sniping at and/or blowing up hospitals?

    Oh.

    Or is that antisemitism.

    Make up your mind Susssssan.

  9. skankypotatos on

    Let’s have a Royal Commission into free healthcare and Superannuation, these are considered far left by the RWFW’s of the LNP

  10. Normal_Purchase8063 on

    should lay to rest any claims the LNP have been acting good faith on the RC topic

    They are determined to turn it into an absolute clown show

  11. BigLittleMate on

    It’s clear Sussan is on a fishing expedition to please her right-wing nutter constituency. Albo better not give in to her.

  12. swell-shindig on

    I guess that answers the question of why Sussan Ley’s position as leader is no longer under threat from the far right. She has sold out.

  13. “Look at how barenaked their motives are,” I say. “How could they get more obvious?”

    And then tomorrow comes and she outdoes herself again.

  14. Where is the far left extremism? Who is it? How is it relevant to this shooting?

    While I personally think it’s pretty squarely religious extremism, it’s much more right wing extremism than left wing if you really want to label it one way or another.

    This woman is a fucking idiot

  15. End goal is to gag criticism of a certain country by a group of left wing protestors, we all know it. Meanwhile the right wing conflating the two is the real problem. No country’s government and actions should be above criticism (especially when they’re you know, war crimes?!)

  16. I wonder whether shit for brains has ever actually considered whether the findings of the enquiry could reach conclusions that she doesn’t want to hear, namely:

    1) Zionism is exposing ordinary Jewish Australians to harm.
    2) Zionism is fueling anti-Semitism.
    3) Far left “extremism” doesn’t pose any threat to the community.

    If an enquiry is brought to examine extremism, it should examine hate aimed towards all minority groups. Jewish groups are not the only communities subject to hate based crimes. Islamophobia is readily apparent (and perpetuated by the Liberal Party) while indigenous Australians and members of the LGBTQIA+ Community have always been subject to hate based crimes.

  17. OverseerConey on

    Far-right terrorist kills people; far-right politicians rush to blame the left. Same as it ever was.

  18. Proof that they’ll never be able to tackle terrorism effectively seeing as they are unable to understand anything about it at a basic level.

  19. Out of curiosity for discussion sake, when or what was the last “far-left extremism” attack in some form?

  20. Sufficient-Brick-188 on

    A couple of weeks ago she wanted it to be on antisemitism. She even wanted a Jewish person to run it. Day after day it’s just the same shit from the Coalition and One Nation. Flood the media with crap safe in the knowledge the media won’t question it, let alone correct them. She has no problem with politicians who support her party going to nazi rallies. The Liberals, Nationals and One Nation have moved that far right in the political realm that everything else is left in  ideology to them. 

  21. It’s weird how extreme the far right have become that the moderate left are considered “far” in their eyes. Labor is right of centre when you consider all political parties such as the Greens. But according to the Liberals they are far left.

    And if we were to compare ourselves to American politics, even our own Liberal party is close to the centre. And to think people want Trump style Republican party ruling this country.

  22. Just in case there was anybody out there who still believed that her adding an extra s to her name was to do with numerology…

  23. What specifically is she referring to when she says “far left extremism”?
    I can’t think of a terrorist attack in this country where the motivation was to support “the worker”.