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JOINT STATEMENT The State Government will move immediately to further crackdown on juvenile crime. The new measures will target hardcore youth criminals who repeatedly offend and put the community at risk. Courts will get more powers allowing them to: Require fitting of electronic monitoring devices (GPS Trackers) As a condition of bail for recidivist high risk offenders aged 16 and 17 Create a presumption against bail For youth offenders arrested for committing further serious indictable offen...

21:02 EDT, 8 February 2021 61 shares Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced a crack down on young criminals with all the force and resources at our disposal after a series of shocking alleged murders rocked the state.  Courts will now be able to have high risk offenders aged 16 and 17 fitted with GPS trackers as part of bail conditions and police on the Gold Coast will carry metal detecting wands to stamp out knife crime under the tough new measures.   The new measures wi...

11:48 EDT, 9 February 2021 A drill-rapping jihadi bought an 18-inch gladiator-style blade and bullet-proof vest online, the old Bailey heard today.   Sahayb Abu, 27, bought a sword, a knife, a combat vest, and a balaclava after chatting to his older sibling on iMessage about their fervent belief in ISIS, it was said. Muhamed Abu, 32, knew all about his relatives views and was under a legal obligation to tell the authorities what Sahayb was up to but did not, jurors heard. The pair were arre...

THREE people have been arrested on suspicion of funding terrorism after raids in Southend and London. Police officers from the Metropolitan Police in London carried out the raids in the early hours of this morning. The operation was carried out by the Mets Counter Terrorism Command, with assistance from the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit. The five addresses raided were in Luton, two in west London, one in Southend and one in central London. They arrested a 42-year-old man, ...

Advertisement While the threat of violence inspired by Islamic extremism remained the domestic security agency’s greatest concern, ASIO last year told this masthead extreme right-wing groups and individuals represented “a serious, increasing and evolving threat to security”. “The extreme and violent right wing has been in ASIO’s sights for many decades and we have maintained continuous and dedicated resources to this area,” an ASIO spokesperson said in August. “Unfortunately, extr...

Authorities are being urged to add a right-wing extremist group to the terror list after its members burnt a cross at the foot of the Grampians on the Australia Day weekend.

They assembled around the local barbecue area, some shirtless with Nazi tattoos, and sipped coffee outside the Black Panther Cafe, which is staffed and owned by an Indian family. “We are the Ku Klux Klan,” one of them belligerently told a local, who declined to be named for fear of repercussions. Another heard the group screaming racist slogans as they got drunk on Sunday night while camping illegally at Lake Bellfield, a beautiful body of water at the foot of the Grampians’ granite pe...

Advertisement State and federal authorities are being urged to take further action against a right-wing extremist group that burnt a cross and chanted racist slogans at a popular Victorian tourist destination over the Australia Day weekend. Thirty-eight members of the far-right National Socialist Network burnt a cross — a ritual usually associated with the Ku Klux Klan — next to Lake Bellfield at the foot of the Grampians in western Victoria on Sunday evening. Tourists and locals hear...

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Advertisement The first thing hiker Nathaniel Maxwell noticed as he trudged towards an ancient rock cavern in the Grampians National Park last Saturday was the sound of dozens of voices singing Waltzing Matilda. It was the Australia Day long weekend and as Mr Maxwell peered into the cave-like formation known as the Cool Chamber in central Victoria, he noticed that many of the men were wearing black T-shirts bearing a distinctive Celtic-style symbol. Others were wearing army fatigues. Some rais...