Asio and Australian federal police have revealed that two teenagers aged 16 and 14 have been convicted under Australia’s counter-terrorism laws and warned that “shocking” numbers of their priority cases involve young people.
The anonymised details of the two unrelated cases have been published as part of an unprecedented coordinated plea from security agencies in the Five Eyes countries – Australia, the US, Britain, Canada and New Zealand – for their citizens to do more to stop young people falling prey to radical, violent ideologies.
