(NCA NewsWire) Australia’s domestic spy agency wants to give up its right to request warrants to question children as young as 14 after it reported only a handful of minors had been charged with terror offences since 9/11.
ASIO told a parliamentary inquiry that the federal government should scrap laws that enable intelligence officers to request warrants to question children aged 14 to 18 during terrorism investigations.
The agency’s Director-General Mike Burgess said despite a string of recent counter-terrorism raids in Sydney, in which five minors were charged with terror offences, it would be “appropriate” to repeal the expanded powers in the current security climate.
