We need to talk about extremism and its links to Christian fundamentalism | Josh Roose

The revelation that the Wieambilla shootings were a religiously motivated terror attack' should prompt deep introspection

The announcement yesterday that Queensland police now consider the Wieambilla attacks to be a religiously motivated terror attack" connected to a Christian extremist ideology should constitute a seismic shift in our understanding of the terror threat in Australia.

Middle-aged, middle-class Christian Australians, two of them teachers, ambushed and killed two police officers and a neighbour. This should and must and trigger debate about new directions in extremism in Australia and equally, should stimulate a wider introspection about the increase in polarisation and extremism in Australia.