Anti-Social Networks: Exploring the Australian Far Right from a Network Perspective

This thesis maps the Australian far right as an evolving network. To do so, it develops a novel modelling approach comprising a theoretical framework delineating ideological and organisational divergence within the far right, and a network perspective that uses this divergence to define subgroups to aggregate and map network elements over time. It subsequently applies this modelling approach to a network dataset extracted from existing peer-reviewed research, and maps the Australian far-right network from 1931–2021. Finally, it conducts three case studies exploring the Australian far-right digital landscape, and places the findings relative to the historic network.