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Speaker 1: Our Australia correspondent this morning, Your terror threat level is up, Donner.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So, the Prime Minister Anthony Albernesi has revealed that

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Speaker 2: Australia's national terror threat is now probable as a threat

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Speaker 2: of violence grows.

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Speaker 1: We also heard from.

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Speaker 2: Asia, which is the nation's peak. Security Intelligence Association says

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Speaker 2: the chance of a terrorist attack in Australia is now probable.

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Speaker 2: It's concerned about the rising threat of politically motivated violence.

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Speaker 2: Now the table of threat levels you might want to

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Speaker 2: know is at the very bottom, it's deemed not expected,

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Speaker 2: then possible. We're now on probable. It can also lift

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Speaker 2: to expected, and then the top of that table is certain.

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Speaker 2: So there is now deemed a greater than fifty percent

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Speaker 2: chance of an onshore attack in Australia. Now, the announcement

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Speaker 2: came as the PM was flanked by the ASIO Director

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Speaker 2: Mike Burgess and Attorney General Mark Drafers. The PM says

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Speaker 2: there's no evidence of a specific and immediate attack, but

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Speaker 2: he does say that also that probable does not actually

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Speaker 2: mean inevitable, and there's no actual intelligence about an imminent

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Speaker 2: threat or danger, but there is a need for a

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Speaker 2: higher level of preparedness for agencies and alertness for the public. Now,

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Speaker 2: as you know, we've seen a global rise in politically

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Speaker 2: motivated violence and extremism as that's been put to Australians

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Speaker 2: as well. So Asio says it's principal security concerns do

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Speaker 2: now involve the fact that Australia is more volatile and

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Speaker 2: more unpredictable, and hence this upgrade to the terror threat

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Speaker 2: being deemed probable. We also heard from the Opposition Peter

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Speaker 2: Dutton and the leader, i should say, and he said

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Speaker 2: that all Australians should pay attention about what is happening

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Speaker 2: in society. We have heard in some way a little

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Speaker 2: bit sort of calming because Asio also says, you know,

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Speaker 2: we have to be aware but not afraid. And yet

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Speaker 2: we hear it not in much detail, but there have

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Speaker 2: been eight incidents in four months that have been dis

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Speaker 2: rupted by the agencies. It was either an act of

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Speaker 2: terrorism or investigated for links to terrorism, and involved some

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Speaker 2: young people, some as young as fourteen to twenty one

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Speaker 2: years of age.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to know with that language. Don't whether to

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Speaker 1: be freaked out or not, but it sounds like they're

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Speaker 1: just being cautious at this time, done a Demayo, our

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