Last year, Bernard Keane of Crikey (rather loftily) asserted that the threat posed to Australia by lone wolf terrorism was merely ‘the new black’ in terrorism narratives, that terrorism was simply a reaction to Western military intervention in Muslim countries, and that terrorism carried out by white people ‘isn’t seen as terrorism in the same way that violence by Muslims is’ – he sort of has a point there, but you can almost hear the Provisional IRA and Anders Brevik scratching their heads in disappointed bemusement.