Australia news LIVE: ASIO boss issues dire terror threat warning; Trump calls Zelensky a ‘dictator’

ASIO boss Mike Burgess has revealed that five major terror plots were foiled over the past year, as he issued a grim warning that Australia has never confronted so many serious national security threats at once.

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Taking the unprecedented step of declassifying the spy agency’s security outlook for the next five years, Burgess said at least three countries had plotted to physically harm people in Australia over the past 12 months as he sounded the alarm on the rising threat of state-sanctioned murder.

Burgess said he feared that attacks on the Jewish community, which have surged since the beginning of the war in Gaza, “have not yet plateaued”, as he warned that extremists were increasingly self-radicalising and “choosing their own adventure” towards potential terrorist activity.

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