Is Australia’s terrorism definition still fit for purpose?

With the alleged attempted bombing at Perth s Invasion Day protest now declared a terrorist act, the release of coronial findings into the Bondi Westfield stabbing, and ever growing fears around hate crime and extremism, there s a difficult question to grapple with: what is terrorism. An immediate answer is found in Australia s legal definition. However, this was created back in 2002, and the global threat environment has since evolved many times over. While organised terrorist groups such as