Right-wing 'patriot' Phillip Galea sentenced to 12 years' jail

A far-right extremist found guilty of plotting a terror attacks in Melbourne last year has been sentenced to 12 years in prison while insisting he is part of a conspiracy plot.

Phillip Galea was convicted of planning attacks on "left-wing" targets in Victoria between August 2015 and 2016.

"You clearly regard Muslims and people on the left-wing of politics as sub-human, whose lives had no value," Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth said in court today.

"You spoke of wanting to 'crush them like bugs'."

During his trial at the Supreme Court last year, the court heard Galea aimed to target the city's anarchist club, the Melbourne Resistance Centre and Trades Hall to "eliminate leaders of the left".

The 36-year-old, who is a former member of right-wing group Reclaim Australia and the True Blue Crew, says he is the victim of a conspiracy plot, accusing his own lawyers of acting against him.

After he was sentenced he held up a sign which read "I did not receive a fair trial".

During his trial last year, the court was told Mr Galea equated the "left wing" with Muslims and held the former responsible for the "Islamisation of Australia".

The Braybrook forklift driver was also convicted of creating a document "likely to facilitate" a terrorist act, which he labelled the "Patriot's Cookbook" - a how-to manual to making bombs and torturing people.

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Galea's right-wing associates dobbed him in when they realised he was planning a terror attack.

During his trial the 36-year-old insisted the Cookbook - which suggested poison arrows and acid as weapons - was satirical.

Arson and explosives experts searched Galea's home in November 2015 and seized five cattle prods and 362.1 grams of mercury.

Computer equipment was also seized, and Galea had researched homemade bombs, ballistic armour and guns, police said.

Galea says he has found God in custody and claims to have disengaged from political activism in custody.