Australia’s national spy agency is seeking new powers to question 14-year-olds in the presence of a lawyer to reflect the “reality” of Australia’s evolving national security threats, following at least three incidents of minors involved in thwarted terror plots.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) wrote in a submission to Parliament in May that it’s “concerned that vulnerable and impressionable young people” were at risk of being caught up in the streams of hate spread across the internet from “extremists of every ideology.”
