Maybe a lot more countries should be thinking of something like this.
Australia proposes new counterterrorism laws 150 Australians have fought with radical militants
CANBERRA: Australias government yesterday announced plans to regulate travel to terrorist hotbeds such as Iraq and Syria as part of a raft of counterterrorism measures aimed at addressing the domestic threat posed by war-hardened homegrown Islamic extremists.
The government announced proposed laws and 630 million Australian dollars ($590 million) in additional resources for intelligence and law enforcement agencies to help them to cope with the scores of Australians who return home after committing terrorist acts overseas. We dont want to subvert Australian justice, Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reports. The last thing any of us would choose to do is to defend our system by damaging our system. But what we are determined to do is to ensure that where people have been involved in terrorist activities, it is much more readily possible to secure convictions than it currently is, given the difficulty of getting evidence of exactly what might be happening overseas, he added.
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Australia proposes new counterterrorism laws 150 Australians have fought with radical militants
CANBERRA: Australias government yesterday announced plans to regulate travel to terrorist hotbeds such as Iraq and Syria as part of a raft of counterterrorism measures aimed at addressing the domestic threat posed by war-hardened homegrown Islamic extremists.
The government announced proposed laws and 630 million Australian dollars ($590 million) in additional resources for intelligence and law enforcement agencies to help them to cope with the scores of Australians who return home after committing terrorist acts overseas. We dont want to subvert Australian justice, Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reports. The last thing any of us would choose to do is to defend our system by damaging our system. But what we are determined to do is to ensure that where people have been involved in terrorist activities, it is much more readily possible to secure convictions than it currently is, given the difficulty of getting evidence of exactly what might be happening overseas, he added.
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Australia proposes new counterterrorism laws - 150 Australians have fought with radical militants - Kuwait Times | Kuwait Times