Terrorism

Commissioner Virginia Bell says the documents will provide a comparison of the resourcing given to counterterrorism agencies before and after August 2024, when the terror threat level was raised to "probable". 

Australia would be the "perfect" target for a fledgling Islamist terror network that has carried out antisemitic attacks in Europe, the UK and Canada, experts have warned.

It is the latest strike in a months-long series of attacks from the US on suspected drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

For now, Australians seeking to understand any intelligence gaps, failures, missed warnings and government failings before the Bondi massacre are expected to accept a keyhole view.

The federal government has made a public interest immunity claim over the documents before the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, essentially arguing it is not in the public interest for the documents to be released.

A man who plotted but ultimately failed to launch a terrorist attack at Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, forcing the pop star to cancel three performances, is sentenced to 15 years behind bars.

Police conducted searches at homes in Melbourne's north early on Thursday as part of ongoing investigations into people who have returned from Syria.

Naveed Akram and his father travelled to Uzbekistan around 2022 and a former terror hotspot in the Philippines shortly before committing the Bondi massacre. 

Four officers were present at the event when the shooting started, with Jewish security organisation Community Security Group NSW denied its request to have police on patrol for the entirety of the event.

The majority of the final group of Australians living in a notorious Syrian camp for the families of killed and captured Islamic State militants are expected to arrive in Australia soon. Here's what we know about them.

The head of Australia's domestic intelligence agency reveals it reviewed past terrorism investigations in 2024 which did not extend to a re-examination of the soon to be Bondi gunmen because of a resourcing decision.

The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has entered a critical phase, assessing the circumstances surrounding the Bondi terror attack with ASIO director-general Mike Burgess defending counter-terrorism resourcing.

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess defends the organisation's change in priorities prior to the Bondi attack while speaking at today's Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

The head of Australia's spy agency will be the first witness when the royal commission on antisemitism resumes this week. 

A world-first research project is aiming to prevent family and intimate partner homicides with similar strategies to those being used to tackle terrorism and lone-actor attacks.

A 48-year-old has been arrested by the state's Joint Counter Terrorism Team over alleged "concerning posts" on social media.

Australia's intelligence agency, ASIO, issued its annual holiday threat assessment less than two weeks before the Hanukkah terrorist attack at Bondi Beach but did not identify heightened risks to the Jewish festival, despite earlier declaring antisemitism as its top priority in terms of threat to life.

After leaving the al-Roj refugee camp on Thursday, a group of seven Australian women and 14 children has arrived in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

Australia's intelligence agencies had cut counterterrorism funding to its lowest share this century before the Bondi massacre, despite warnings that a terrorist attack was probable and that antisemitic violence posed an escalating threat to life.

The ABC has seen buses carrying the group, which left the al-Roj camp on Thursday afternoon, local time.