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Australia pursues indefinite detention for terror convicts
Australia is cracking down on terror convicts following several ‘lone wolf’ assaults by introducing an indefinite detention bill and lowering the age of people subjected to searches to 14
About 100 people have left Australia for Syria to fight alongside organisations such as Daesh - Malcolm Turnbull
Australia on Thursday introduced a new law allowing the indefinite detention of people convicted of terror-related charges.
The Australian parliament is expected to approve it as early as this week, Reuters reported.
Australia has also sought to tighten the oversight of potential threats by reportedly lowering the age of people who can be subjected to telecommunications interceptions and searches to 14.
Australia has been on heightened alert for attacks by home-grown radicals, having suffered several "lone wolf" assaults, including a cafe siege in Sydney in 2014 in which two hostages and the gunman were killed and an attack by an "Islamic State-inspired" 22-year-old man on Sunday.
Earlier this month, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said that about 100 people have left Australia for Syria to fight alongside organisations such as Daesh.
