Extremists in our midst

Venture out into Australia’s political fringes and you will discover an assortment of marginal groups and individuals, whose political agenda is less about populism and more extreme. Author, John Safran, has been hanging out with this disparate bunch of outliers: white nationalists and fundamentalists, far right patriots, anti-Islamists, anarchists, Nazi sympathisers, and IS supporters.  In his book, ‘Depends what you mean by extremist‘, he describes, often sardonically, what he’s gleaned from his many strange encounters.

Listen to John Safran in conversation with Paul Barclay on ABC Big Ideas.