Documents Created Between 1 January 2020 – 31 December 2021 That Relate To Sovereign Citizens.

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The Attorney-General's Department released briefing materials prepared for the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security's inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia (April 2021). The documents detail a March 2021 ASIO-recommended shift in counterterrorism terminology to align with Five-Eyes partners and evolving threat assessments. The new framework categorises violent extremism into two umbrella categories: ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE)—encompassing national/racist, anarchist/revolutionary, and specific-issue motivations (including sovereign citizens, Neo-Nazism, white supremacy, incelism, and environmentalism)—and religiously motivated violent extremism (RMVE). The disclosure indicates the Attorney-General's Department's policy position on standardising language for terrorist threat classification during 2020-2021, reflecting institutional coordination on national security terminology.