The Special Terrorism Policing Powers Triggered by the Bondi Beach Massacre Explained
New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon declared the 14 December 2025 Bondi Beach mass shooting, a terror-related incident in the hours following the murder of 15 Jewish people at a religious festival. This determination served to unlocked the special...
NSW Police Ram Cars, Abuse and Arrest Innocent Men for ‘Driving Whilst Muslim’
New South Wales police tactical operations officers rammed two cars carrying seven men on Dharug land at the intersection of George and Campbell streets in the Sydney southwestern suburb of Liverpool at around 4 pm on Thursday 18 December 2025....
Antisemitic Mass Murder at Bondi Beach Robs Us All of Our Common Humanity
The mass murder shooting targeting the local Jewish community gathered at the “Chanukah by the Sea” event on Gadigal land at Bondi Beach on Sunday, 14 December 2025, was a sickening hate crime that’s now being investigated as an act...
Hamas Applies to be Removed from List of Terrorist Organisations
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
