Counterterrorism legislation and far-right terrorism in Australia and the United Kingdom

Over the past two decades, since 9/11 terrorist attacks on United States, a number of countries have enacted new laws tailored specifically to threat posed by Islamic extremist terrorism. This includes recent legislation that has criminalised behaviour associated with ‘foreign fighters’, such as act travel to, or fighting in, foreign conflicts. legislative response reflects enactment earlier laws, measures designed for prior iterations contemporary threat, control orders and preventative detention orders, prohibitions speech disseminating propganda criminalisation training. Yet despite focus terrorism, this is not only Western democracies face. The rise far-right terrorism in years has, however, seen same recourse been case Using Australia Kingdom studies, article assesses extent which counterterrorism used deal particular In doing so, it evaluates lessons might be learned from applying one other types