'Hectoring’ from conservatives behind Asio move to dump term ‘rightwing extremism’

Labor MP Ed Husic says some politicians want to elide the term to avoid confronting ugly streak within conservatism'

A federal Labor MP has accused the Coalition of only taking national security threats seriously when it's politically convenient", after the Australian spy agency, Asio, changed the language used to describe the rising threat of rightwing extremism.

Ed Husic, who became the first federal MP to be sworn in on the Qur'an in 2010, said he and other Muslims had previously faced repeated calls from conservatives to condemn Islamist extremism louder, stronger, and more regularly".