Terrorism Offences

Hamas Applies to be Removed from List of Terrorist Organisations

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Hamas has made 27 submissions to Australian home affairs minister Tony Burke in respect of an application to see itself removed from the official list of terrorist organisations, and the Palestinian political group, which has an armed military wing, argues...

Terrorism Threat from White Male Teens Is on the Rise in Australia

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A 17-year-old white Australian male was arrested by federal police on Ngunnawal land in Canberra on 5 November 2025, as the teen was allegedly plotting a chemical attack on a local in public in aid of sparking a white “nationalist...

ASIO Wants Hizb ut-Tahrir Designated as a Terrorist Organisation

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As he gave the 2025 Lowy Lecture on Gadigal land at Sydney Town Hall on 4 November 2025, spy boss Mike Burgess warned the nation is facing unprecedented foreign threats, and, in terms of the enemy within, or the fifth...

Antisemitism Moral Panic Used to Introduce New Laws Against State Sponsored Terrorism

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Ever since former Liberal leader Peter Dutton took off his Home Affairs cap in 2021 and the Albanese government came to office in 2022, it’s appeared the government’s two-decade-long terrorism-law-enacting bonanza had come to an end. But with the recent...

Policing the Enemy Within: The AFP Launches National Security Teams to Enhance Social Cohesion

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The Australian federal police (AFP) announced on 8 October 2025 that it launched new National Security Investigation teams the previous month “to target groups and individuals causing high levels of harm to Australia’s social cohesion”. These proactive teams are to...

The “Antisemitic” Terror Plot Was Fabricated, Yet Resulting Hate Crime Laws Remain

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The deputy commissioners of both the AFP and the NSW police announced on Monday that a series of so-called antisemitic crimes that took place on Gadigal land in Greater Sydney over December and January, were part of an elaborate hoax...

Five Eyes Nations Collectively Warn of Rising Online Youth Radicalisation

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The intelligence and law enforcement agencies of the Five Eyes nations released a joint communique late last week, in which these bodies warn about the rising threat of youth radicalisation, and in particular “minors who support, plan or undertake terrorist...

Authorities Crack Down on Neo-Nazis as Prominent Figure Openly Threatens Terrorism

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Neo-Nazis have not only been mobilising for the little white guy against the onset of global capital that’s evidently taking all the jobs away from “white men” in the NSW regional town of Cowra, but a key member of the...

Israel’s Terrorism Attack on Lebanon Sets Precedent for Future Commercial Device Attacks

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At around 3.30 pm on Tuesday in Lebanon, pagers belonging to Hezbollah-affiliated individuals peeped as a message arrived that served to garner attention and explode the devices that had been tampered with prior to purchase, so that they acted as...

‘Probable Terrorism Threat’ Stems from Rise in Far-Right Extremism

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So, prime minister Anthony Albanese turned up the volume on Australia’s National Terrorism Threat Level on Monday morning, from “possible” to “probable”, which he added does not mean “imminent” or that intelligence has any details about a specific “threat or...
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