Australia's top spy boss has warned the country's seeing an increase in recruitment efforts by neo-Nazi groups.
ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess told a Senate Estimates hearing that demonstrations are becoming more prominent, but said it didn’t necessarily indicate a growing terror threat.
"It's a sign that those groups are more emboldened to come out publicly, to push what they believe in and recruit to their cause," he said.
Burgess said that right-wing terror threats make up around 30% of the ASIO's counter-terror caseload.
"Does that mean there's been an increase in the numbers of them? I don't see that correlation, I think they're just more emboldened."
There have been multiple neo-Nazi demonstrations in public places over the past few years in Australia.
Most recently, two men were arrested after a violent clash with police on the streets of Melbourne, and anti-racism demonstrators.
The group of around 20 were dressed in black and performed the Nazi salute.
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