Across Australia, digitally mediated ecosystems increasingly fuse conspiracism, spiritualised meaning-making, and anti-institutional grievance into forms of mobilisation that can appear, at first glance, as community care, environmental protection, or cultural revival. This article synthesises a large body of public-record analysis and applied theory to examine a Central Coast case ecology centred on Jake Cassar, Coast … Continue reading High-demand-group dynamics, and the cultural laundering of extremism in contemporary Australia: The Jake Cassar, Coast Environmental Alliance, Campfire Collective, and “GuriNgai” nexus