(ABC-Australia) Australia’s official terror alert level has been raised to “probable” amid heightened community tensions over the war in Gaza. Security authorities believe the chances of a violent extremist act are now more likely than when authorities lowered the alert level to […]
(Age) A tool used to predict future terror offences is still being used by Home Affairs despite several expert reports and a Supreme Court judge deeming it “extremely poor” at assessing individuals’ risk of committing terror-related crimes. The “VERA-2R,” widely criticised by […]
(Age) Peter Dutton could be investigated by the national security watchdog after a Victorian Supreme Court judge found that under his watch as home affairs minister, the department failed to disclose scathing reports questioning an assessment tool used to detain terror cell […]
(Australian) A radical, terrorism-backing Sydney cleric who described Jewish people as “descendants of pigs and monkeys” and urged people to “spit on Israel” so that “Jews would drown” is a Saturday school principal teaching sharia to children as young as five. The […]
(Age) TikTok is the only social media giant not signed up to a global anti-extremism pact, Australia’s top internet regulator says, as MPs call out the Chinese-owned company for the proliferation of graphic content stemming from the Hamas-Israel war on its platform. […]
(Sky News) The government is being urged to urgently block a pro-Palestinian activist and member of a listed terrorist organisation from entering Australia. Leila Khaled is booked as a keynote speaker at the Socialist Alliance and Green Left’s Ecosocialism conference in Perth […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) NSW Premier Chris Minns has been accused of “specifically targeting” the Muslim community after he flagged a review of hate speech laws, with an extraordinary letter from the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) saying it would deepen feelings of […]
(Iran International) In spite of Iranian denials, the Australian government admits it is “concerned” by Iran’s ongoing espionage activities. A spokeswoman for Australia’s Home Affairs Department told Iran International: “Last year, the Australian government made it clear that it is concerned by […]
(ABC-Australia) Convicted Australian terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika has been released into the community after spending nearly two decades in prison. On Tuesday morning, Victorian Supreme Court justice Elizabeth Hollingworth granted Benbrika’s release on an extended supervision order for 12 months. His movements […]
(AAP) The federal opposition has claimed the repatriation of the so-called ISIS brides has turned a western Sydney issue into a nationwide problem after one was granted bail in a NSW regional court. At the same time the former NSW counter-terrorism minister […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Less than three months after she was returned to Australia, one of the so-called “ISIS brides” has been charged after police said they had new evidence she had willingly entered Islamic State territory in 2014 and knew of her […]
(AAP) The impending resettlement of more relatives of Islamic State fighters has reared as a Victorian election issue, with the state opposition objecting. A group of 17 Australian women and children who have been in the al-Roj camp in Syria since the […]
(NCA NewsWire) An emotional man has been reunited with his daughter and grandchildren as four families returned home to Australia after being taken from a camp for Islamic State families in Syria. Seventeen people — four women and 13 children — touched […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Australia is preparing to overturn its policy of more than three years and launch a mission to repatriate dozens of women and children, the family members of former Islamic State fighters who have been languishing for years in squalid […]
(BBC) The Ministry of Defence says 460 people crossed the English Channel in 12 small boats on Saturday — one of the highest number[s] in a single day so far this year. With the 247 migrants arriving on Friday, more than 1,000 […]
(BBC) The Border Force, which polices the UK’s borders, may have made the small boats crisis in the Channel worse, an independent report has found. The report, commissioned by Home Secretary Priti Patel, described the overall approach as “ineffective and possibly counterproductive.” […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) A High Court decision striking down a key plank of the federal government’s citizenship-stripping powers could pave the way for a small number of dual nationals accused of terrorist activities to appeal against the cancellation of their Australian status […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Federal Parliament will need to sit in a locked-down Canberra over the next fortnight, with the government in a race against time to extend control orders on people considered a terrorist risk that will otherwise expire early next month. […]
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