Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has urged the international community to follow its hardline stance on terrorism by introducing tough laws to deal with home-grown threats, ahead of this week’s UN Security Council crisis meeting on the expanding reach of Islamic State. Who is funding these terrorists? The UN is completely useless and yet rakes in billions of dollars with their climate change scam and continues to promote their shameless propaganda. Where does the Halal tax get paid too and what do they do with the billions of dollars the unsuspecting public pay for and are not even aware of this tax, only a small percentage of people in Australia know about the Halal tax. Now Australia is facing a terrorist emergency and today I hear Labor on radio saying they won’t be passing any new laws unless they have full details and are satisfied the laws are necessary, looks like Labor are still treating last week as a beat up and pandering to a minority for votes. Julie Bishop urges nations to tackle terror at home The Australian | September 22, 2014 12:00AM Brendan Nicholson Defence Editor Canberra Dennis Shanahan Political Editor Canberra Tackle terror at home: Bishop AUSTRALIA has urged the international community to follow its hardline stance on terrorism by introducing tough laws to deal with home-grown threats, ahead of this week’s UN Security Council crisis meeting on the expanding reach of Islamic State. As Attorney-General George Brandis revealed that the government was considering an Australian Federal Police request for wider powers to detain suspected terrorists without charge, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told the UN Security Council that Australia was introducing legislative reforms to address the threat of home-grown terrorism and intensifying its counter-terrorism engagement with other nations. “We urge all UN member states to do the same,” Ms Bishop said. The National Security Council met late yesterday, ahead of Tony Abbott’s statement to parliament today on security issues, both in Australia and in the Middle East. On the eve of today’s resumption of parliament — and in the wake of revelations politicians were among the targets of an alleged terror plot at the centre of last week’s raids — new security measures have come into force at Parliament House in Canberra. The ground-floor entrance to the ministerial wing and the slip road leading up to it were closed last night, while “unaccompanied” visitor passes will no longer be issued. The Prime Minister will join Ms Bishop at the UN this week to urge a global freeze on the flow of funds and fighters to Islamic State. The Abbott government is also seeking power to detain fighters returning from conflicts overseas. As most of a 600-strong Australian military force flew out to the United Arab Emirates yesterday to stand by to help an international mission against Islamic State in Iraq, a Royal Australian Navy warship blocked a major terrorist fundraising operation. Operating off the Horn of Africa, the frigate HMAS Toowoomba intercepted a dhow carrying 5.6 tonnes of hashish worth about $280 million on the street. The Australian has been told the smuggling operation was organised by al-Qa’ida to raise funds for its terrorist activities. US President Barack Obama will address the Security Council as its chairman this week to seek more help for Iraq and to encourage more action against Islamic State in Syria. Tony Abbott is expected to announce the deployment of fighter aircraft and special forces to Iraq at the UN within days, as well as pledges of military and humanitarian aid. The main contingent of the 400-strong Royal Australian Air Force personnel and aircraft left for the Middle East yesterday from RAAF bases Amberley and Williamtown. The aircraft included F/A-18F Super Hornets, a KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport plane and an E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft. The rest of the force is made up of nearly 200 army advisers, most of whom are special forces commandos. Air force chief Geoff Brown said he was proud of the preparation work conducted by all RAAF personnel in the lead-up to the deployment. “The large amount of preparation conducted to deploy such a potent and capable force in a relatively short time is testament to the professionalism and skill of our air force,” Air Marshal Brown said. In the wake of last week’s police and ASIO raids in Sydney and Brisbane, Senator Brandis said the government had prepared a second package of legislation. The first, dealing with the powers of the national security agencies, was introduced into parliament in July and would be debated this week. The second, the so-called foreign fighters bill, would be taken to the Coalition partyroom tomorrow and was due to be introduced in the Senate on Wednesday. Senator Brandis told Sky News’s Australian Agenda that the Australian Federal Police had raised concerns about getting control orders that were needed urgently. At present an application had to be made to the Attorney-General and had to address 12 issues. Once the Attorney-General was satisfied, the application had to go to a judge. Senator Brandis said the new legislation allowed for a control order to be obtained without seeking agreement from the Attorney-General in urgent circumstances but it had to go to the Attorney-General within four hours of the application being made. He said he believed it was too restrictive having just two bases on which control orders could be obtained. He said he was confident of Labor’s support for the foreign fighters bill which would make it a criminal offence to advocate terrorism or visit an area declared by the Foreign Minister a no-go zone. Labor says it wants to see the legislation before it makes a commitment.
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