'A line of dead': Right-wing activist wanted to 'cut lefties throats'
An accused far-right terror plotter allegedly spoke about "cutting throats" in central Melbourne and leaving "a line of dead lefties around me".
Phillip Galea, 34, is charged with planning to attack left-wing groups including the Melbourne Anarchist Club between August 2015 and 2016.
"I wanted to go around cutting throats in the city centre. I wanted a line of dead lefties around me," Galea allegedly told another man in an intercepted phone call read to Victoria's Supreme Court on Tuesday.
"I joined this movement because I wanted to fight," Galea also said, prosecutor Richard Maidment QC told the jury.
Galea is standing trial for planning a terrorist attack and trying to make a document, which he called the "Patriot's Cookbook", to facilitate an attack.
He wanted to target the city's anarchist club, as well as the Melbourne Resistance Centre and the city's Trades Hall, associated with the union movement, "to eliminate the leaders of the left", Mr Maidment said.
Galea was associated with the far-right group Reclaim Australia and blamed "the left" for the "Islamisation of Australia", the prosecutor added.
In another phone call railing against "lefties", Galea allegedly said "eventually we'll put them all in ovens ... with the Muslims".
He was arrested in November 2015 when police raided his Braybrook home and then again in August 2016.
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