Australia raises terror threat level citing for 'extreme ideologies'

Australia on Monday raised its terrorism threat level from "possible" to "probable", with the country's top intelligence official citing a homegrown rise in "extreme ideologies" .

Intelligence chief Mike Burgess said there was no indication of an "imminent attack", but there was an increased threat of violence in the next 12 months and "Australia's security environment is degrading, is more volatile and more unpredictable". "Politically motivated violence now joins espionage and foreign interference as our principal security concerns.”