Labor’s changes to listing hate groups will target Islamist and far-right extremists operating just inside the limits of law

Home affairs minister says the proposal would clamp down on groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir and the National Socialist Network

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The federal government wants to shut down Islamist and far-right extremists with a new regime for listing hate groups, which would operate nearly identically to the terror listing scheme that outlaws the Islamic State, al-Qaida and Hamas.

The changes to clamp down on groups like the Islamist Hizb ut-Tahrir and the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network are overdue, according to one leading terror researcher, because those radical groups have managed to operate just inside the limits of current hate laws.