On the 21st of September the Federal Justice Minister and the Attorney General’s department launched a booklet titled ‘Preventing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation In Australia’.
The kit is directed towards young people, and those working with them, including schools.
While the kit covers different types of violence and so-called extremism, what really caught public attention, and lead to ridicule both here and internationally, was the case study of the fictional environmental activist Karen.
On today’s show we speak with Cam Walker, from Friends of the Earth, who are calling for the immediate withdrawal of the kit.
And we also hear from Lydia Shelly, a lawyer and community advocate, about the broader context of attacks on civil liberties and the dog-whistle Islamophobia latent in the government's propaganda around violent extremism.
