Australia’s intelligence gathering agency Asio and the Australian federal police have urged parents, teachers and healthcare workers to be vigilant for signs of radicalisation in young people, after it was revealed that two teenagers aged 16 and 14 have been convicted under Australia’s counter-terrorism laws.
These agencies claimed that “shocking” numbers of their priority cases involve young people.
The anonymised details of the two unrelated cases have been published as part of an unprecedented coordinated plea from security agencies in the Five Eyes countries – Australia, the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand – for their citizens to do more to stop young people falling prey to radical, violent ideologies.
“In every one of the terrorist attacks, disruptions and suspected terrorist incidents in Australia this year, the alleged perpetrator was a young person,” Asio’s director-general, Mike Burgess, said in a statement accompanying the analysis.
Read more on The Guardian.
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