Police say there’s ‘nothing really to indicate’ that the Wieambilla shooting could be classified as terrorism
and a glut of online posts made by one of the shooters – Gareth Train – that appear to demonstrate a series of ideological influences, including elements of fundamental Christianity and the conspiracy-fuelled sovereign citizen movement.
She compared the shooting to the 2014 Lindt siege in Sydney, in which lone gunman Man Haron Monis held dozens of people hostage during a 16-hour siege that“He obviously claimed a link to Isis but they were very tenuous at best, but that isn’t what made it terror – it’s that he was harming people for a religious, ideological reason,” she said.
“It certainly doesn’t look good if Australia continues to label every act of violence by a Muslim actor as terror and all of the rightwing extremism, which we are seeing rising and seeing more warnings about from Asio, as murder or just regular crime,” she said.
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