(ABC-Australia) ASIO director-general Mike Burgess says Australia’s terror-level threat has been raised to “probable” due to a rising mix of ideologies where more people think “violence is permissible.”
Mr Burgess had earlier on Monday joined Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus in making the announcement, where he said eight incidents had been disrupted in the past four months.
The raising of the threat level does not mean ASIO has intelligence about plans of an imminent attack.
Speaking to 7.30, Mr Burgess said not one of the eight incidents in isolation caused the raising of the threat level.
In six of the eight cases identified by the intelligence service boss the individuals involved were previously unknown to police or ASIO.
