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Donna Demaio: Australian Correspondent on the country's terror threat level increasing · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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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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