Australia has listed the far-right group ‘Terrorgram’ as a terrorist organisation.
The group largely operates online, radicalising and recruiting people.
Associating with the group in Australia can now carry a 25-year jail sentence.
The group has now been linked to a 19-year-old’s failed plot to allegedly kill a NSW Labor MP last year.
Terrorgram
Terrorgram is a global neo-Nazi group primarily based on social media, promoting white supremacy and racially-motivated violence.
It largely uses the messaging app Telegram to recruit members.
A man who murdered two people at a Slovakian LGBTQ+ nightclub in 2022 was later identified as being associated with Terrorgram. After he died by suicide, police found his 65-page manifesto, detailing homophobic, antisemitic, and white nationalist conspiracy theories.
Australia
Australia imposed sanctions on Terrorgram earlier this year, which included bans on giving funds to the group.
The Federal Government has now taken a further step in designating it as a terrorist organisation.
This designation means it is illegal to associate with Terrorgram, including membership, recruitment, training, funding, and other forms of support.
The crime carries a maximum penalty of 25 years imprisonment.
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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said listing Terrorgram as a terrorist organisation helps security officials crack down on the “growing threat” of radicalisation.
“This group fosters and promotes an ideology that would seek to make some Australians feel unwelcome in their home, it is this extremist hatred which is not welcome and has no place in Australia.”
NSW plot
The Department of Home Affairs has linked a 19-year-old charged over an alleged plot to kill NSW Labor MP Tim Crakanthorp to Terrorgram.
In June 2024, the man allegedly tried to livestream the attack on the MP near his electorate office in Newcastle.
He also posted a manifesto online that referenced the 2019 Christchurch shooter, who murdered 51 people at a mosque and community hall in New Zealand’s deadliest terrorist attack.
The man has since been charged with terror offences.
UK and U.S.
The U.S. and UK have both designated Terrorgram as a terrorist organisation in the past 18 months.
In April 2024, then-UK Home Secretary James Cleverly said the group “spreads vile propaganda and aims to radicalise young people to conduct heinous terrorist acts.”
American officials have linked the group to various plots to kill federal officials, and destroy power plants in the state of New Jersey. They also identified three men, based in Brazil, Croatia, and South Africa respectively, as leaders of the network.
