Government launches counterterrorism and extremism strategy

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The government has unveiled a new strategy aimed at combating terrorism and violent extremism warning young people are particularly vulnerable to being radicalised.

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00:00This is $106 million over four years and the money will go towards prevention and support

00:08programs.

00:09One of which is basically rolling out an existing program in New South Wales nationally.

00:14So Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke announcing this strategy said the way that that would

00:19work is for parents who were concerned about their child being radicalised or showing sort

00:25of tendencies towards violent extremism, they could contact this support service and

00:31get help.

00:32Because he says that parents are sort of hesitant I suppose to contact police if their child

00:38hasn't yet committed a crime but they're showing some of those behaviours.

00:41So he says this is a way that they can get that support if needed.

00:45Now the Federal Government is also releasing a fact sheet that will provide advice to parents

00:51to be able to identify some of those behaviours and also be able to talk to their children

00:57about it.

00:58Tony Burke the Home Affairs Minister says that more people are becoming radicalised

01:03to violence and particularly young people are vulnerable.

01:07As the Director General of ASIO Mike Burgess has made clear, increasingly we are also finding

01:13people who are younger.

01:15We are increasingly finding people who are radicalised faster and radicalised online.

01:20We are increasingly finding people where it's no longer a set ideology, be it what

01:26would be viewed as an extremist ideology purporting to be based on faith or what would be described

01:36as a right wing racist ideology.

01:41It's now as well mixed ideologies as part of these rapid forms of radicalisation.

01:48Minister Burke was also talking about the recent change a few months ago in the terror

01:52threat level going from possible to probable and he said that as that threat level evolves

01:59so too should the government's response.

02:01So that is the reason behind today's announcement.

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