00:02Well, it's focused primarily on the fact that the terrorism environment has shifted.
00:08The front line is no longer covert hideouts, but now online chat rooms.
00:14We heard from the Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke today.
00:17He was joined by the heads of ASIO and AFP, and they explained that this centre, a $76
00:23million venture, is tasked specifically with clamping down on those trying to incite violence
00:28online or spreading online hate.
00:31Their message very much was that the playbook has shifted, that today's generation of terrorists
00:36if you like are increasingly male, they're a lot younger, they're often drawn to a mix
00:43of ideologies that can be quite contradictory in nature, and they're also being radicalised
00:49at warp speed.
00:51Minister Burke said this new centre is very much designed to try and pull young people, especially
00:56out of these rabbit holes before some of this keyboard hate that they're espousing can
01:02transpire or spill over into the real world.
01:05We have professionals who've dedicated their lives to national security, working in the
01:13online space to find where there is a risk so that we can then make sure where people are
01:22being pushed towards extremism have the best opportunity to intervene before harm outside
01:30the online world becomes real.
01:33That's the work and that's the capability.
01:35The people who are working in this centre, where obviously the location of it is not disclosed,
01:40but the people who are working in this centre are second to none.
01:44Livia, Australia's most senior spy also flagged some national security changes.
01:50Yes, so ASIO boss Mike Burgess flagged the fact that Australia's online threat scale, or
01:56I should say a terror threat scale, not online, has effectively hit a ceiling of sorts and is
02:02no longer reflecting just how dangerous the threat environment really is.
02:06Since August 2024, our threat level has remained probable, which means that there's more than
02:12a 50% chance of a terror event occurring in the next 12 months.
02:17Under the current rules, ASIO can't bump up the warning to expected unless they have intelligence
02:23on a specific plot.
02:25So there are concerns, I guess, here that the system is lagging behind reality and that
02:31the general public isn't aware or conscious of just how significant potential threats could
02:38be.
02:38For that reason, he is undergoing a review of this system.
02:41He's going to be presenting this to the Home Affairs Minister as soon as next week, and it
02:47will need to be adopted essentially by the Commonwealth, the states and territories.
02:52However, we did hear from Minister Burke that he seemed pretty open to this idea and explained
02:58some of the pitfalls with the current system.
03:00Effectively, the challenge that we have at the moment is this.
03:03You go from possible to probable when you, you know, colloquially cross the 50% threshold.
03:10But anywhere from 50% up until where you have specific information of an imminent threat, you
03:20don't have an ease of communication method at the moment of communicating how we basically
03:27ratchet up.
03:28So that's the weakness that is being worked through.
03:33The heads of the AFP and ASIO also revealed they're just like us.
03:37Their agencies were also affected by the Microsoft outage.
03:40We have to recover now.
03:40Now let's plan onene.
03:41Awesome!
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