ASIO director Mike Burgess and PM Anthony Albanese ready to scour social media for extremists

By Senator Alex Antic

The Labor government has announced $74 million over two years for a new Counter-Terrorism Online Centre led by ASIO and the Australian Federal Police.

A man in a suit with a red tie, engaged in conversation, appears thoughtful.
Senator Alex Antic warns ASIO and AFP will be spying on everyone

This centre will monitor “high-risk online spaces” including social media, gaming platforms, Discord channels, encrypted chats like WhatsApp, online forums, and the dark web. Teams of analysts and sophisticated AI tools will scour these spaces for extremist material and work to disrupt potential threats.

The stated concern is that too many young Australian men are being radicalised online. While some level of monitoring presumably already occurs (we’re unsure exactly how much), this formalises and expands it. In plain terms, we’re being told the government must spy on its citizens. For our safety, of course.

This announcement follows the recommendations of the interim report of the Royal Commission into Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion (announced after the horrific terrorist attack at Bondi late last year) which exposed serious intelligence failures despite clear red flags.

Nobody wants to see young men drawn into violent and dangerous ideologies yet I also don’t think many want to see surveillance that casts a wide net over young Australian men.

This coincides with ASIO expanding its interrogation powers by making permanent what were intended to be temporary post-9/11 measures. These compulsory questioning powers allow ASIO to force individuals, including non-suspects and those as young as 14, to appear for questioning that can last many hours, with up to five years’ imprisonment for non-compliance. What began as emergency powers are now, as usual, being entrenched without regular parliamentary oversight.

Just like with “hate speech” laws, the critical question remains: Who gets to define what counts as “extremism”? Vague rhetoric about “radicalisation” is instead being used in ways that can be interpreted broadly.

The United Kingdom offers a sobering warning. There, citizens have been imprisoned for social media posts. Those raising concerns about extremism are too often the ones being punished.

I don’t want Australia to go down the same path as the United Kingdom, where legitimate concerns are treated as the real threat.

The government should focus squarely on the ideologies driving actual violence instead of casting a wide net over everyday Australians.

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  1. For those who do not yet know the danger that ASIO and the A.F.P. are to the Australian public without giving them even more legislative power I suggest you read the below articles.

    They were both involved in the Port Arthur Massacre, having Bryant locked up knowing he was innocent of the murders and were involved with the Lindt Cafe Murders.

    The A.F.P. were also involved with provable interference of my computer when I was attempting to get something done to help Martin Bryant. They also answered one of my letters in which they stated that because the crime was perpetrated in Tasmania, it was not the responsibility of the A.F.P. (In other words that organisation is not required, as when I last checked Tasmania was part of Australia.

    https://gumshoenews.com/covid-shots-lead-to-excess-deaths-in-australia/

    https://gumshoenews.com/afp-receives-hughes-advisory-on-covid-fraud/

  2. Have some sympathy for troops on the ground. 50% of police leaving suffering PTSD.

    So says Ant56.

    Stuff that load of rubbish!

    Sympathy for the pollies’ uniformed cowardly thugs, armed to the teeth with tasers, automatic weapons, chemical sprays, truncheons etc. The ones who would gang smash you for not wearing a mask 😷? Or less? The same ones who massacred D. Freeman?

  3. He, he… That’ll “keep the bastards honest”, right? Somebody must’ve flipped the script while we wuz asleep.
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    Since we have ‘free speech’ embedded in our Constitution by the High Court and seeing as how silence itself is making a statement about NOTHING , we have nothing to worry about? Except the costly process of protecting our rights.
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    Unless of course our right to speak freely carries less weight than our right to say NOTHING!

    Legislation of late seems to operate on a master/servant basis. We’re ordered by politicians and bureaucrats to do whatever we’re told for our own ‘good’. Often by administrative decree and discretion! So it’s sure looking like it’s time we had the Constitution tweaked a little more in our favour and given a little more clarity to make sure “we keep the bastards honest” to a more satisfactory standard!
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    And that means PROHIBITING any authority or instrumentality from FORCING us into cooperating with any abuse of ourselves or our own interests. A well drafted Australian Bill of Inalienable Rights is well overdue! Prevention will prove less damaging than the cure. And it might save us an arm and a leg.

  4. That photograph.
    Burgess looks to have one foot in the grave, resigned to not living with joy, with one concession – hell happily sign draconian shyte legislation because . . .
    Burka looks like he can see the future, and it don’t look good.
    Elbow seems to be pointing out something in the distance he can’t quite make out:
    ‘Is that a mobile mRNA death-jab van coming our way?’
    Burke has better long-range vision?

  5. Of course the ASIO definition of radicalised has to meet the following criteria:

    1. You are male.
    2. You are white.
    3. You are able bodied.
    4. Your ancestry comes from those horrible colonialist countries like England.
    5. You are right of communist on the political spectrum.
    6. You said un-nice things about Dan Andrews and his Government back in 2022.
    7. You refused the juice infusion (bonus points for being coerced yet successfully refusing more than 4 times).
    8. You vote One Nation.
    9. You criticised the Albo Government more than once.
    10. You don’t intend to buy an EV nor swap your gas hot water heater over for an electric one.
    11. You showed your mates a spreadsheet that proves that windmills, mirrors and batteries cannot power an industrialised economy.
    12. You showed your mates a spreadsheet that shows owning a EV costs around four times as much as the petrol equivalent, all things considered including depreciation.

    Beware the knock on the door!! We can’t have radicals like you destroying this wonderful country!!!

  6. These new laws prove that it is the government that has become the radical extremists.
    Why?
    Because they’re radical and extreme.
    They entrench the Australian Stazi as a law unto themselves with no oversight or accountability.
    This is what we get for “protesting peacefully”during Covid instead of serving them back what they really deserved and ridding ourselves of the most vile threat freedom living Australians have ever faced….
    They’re very own government.
    They’ve gone insane.

  7. It those liars who call themselves Jews…It always is. They are hiding a biblical world and the biblical nature of WHITE PEOPLE! We are the Israelites, ‘The Lost tribes of Israel’, the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Nordic-Scandinavian..With the Nordic Germans (I am mostly Anglo-Saxon-Celtic I presume, so I am not claiming to be royalty Okay?) being the Royal House of Judah. Jesus was not a Jew, but directly related to what later, after his crucifixion, became ‘Nordic Germans’.

    What is a Jew? Jesus describes them best in John 8:44-45. Is that Anti-Semitic? Well those liars are definitely not Semitic. Jesus was not a ‘Jew’. He was a Galilean. His ‘mother’ is not the child of the devil, it is ‘Mary, Mother of God’ and his father is God the Creator, not Cain, the murderer of Abel!

    Who is the Jews mother? B’nai B’rith, Jew only Freemason order, and the highest of all masonic orders, ‘clutches the throat of every government in the world’…they allow their women to join their JEW only masonic order to represent the spirit of their mother…who is the Nephilim- Lilith/Kali/Ishtar/Isis/APHRODITE! Their mother is the Hermaphrodite, child of the devil, ‘the devil’ is Lucifer, their other ‘father’, whose ‘daughter’ ( the original hermaphrodite) who married IS Cain! The Children of Cain! ITS sibling, is Hermes…the proof of their reality is still in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE! HERM-APHRODITE! ‘God made Man and Woman’ and the fallen Angels created what? Children marked by God as ‘not meant to be’ via the breaking of divine law, neither man nor woman but both..blood drinkers, flesh eaters…SATANIC VAMPIRES!

    Isis/Ishtar (Easter)/Lilith/Kali/Persephone/Aphrodite/Medusa/Nike/Britannia the Great/Europa/Alexander + Alexandra the Great/Cupid/Apollo/Apollyiana/Diana/Dionysus/APOLLYON THE DESTROYER/Baphomet/Moloch/BAAL!!!!

    You don’t believe ‘they’ are hiding a biblical world? John 8:45. ‘Because I tell you the truth, you believe me not!’

    I’m not the Lord, I am his humble servant.

  8. The kind of sh-t they’re involved with using Ai on the internet and in the court system. Making up fake “history”, fake laws and precedents, psychiatry as a weapon, and more. Extremely important information on his site. The agenda is worldwide.
    https://matt1up.substack.com/p/mncourtfraud-com

  9. I can see a lot of anxious State & Federal Police Commissioners and their lower ranks and those no longer in the job wondering when a Cop will be in contact with them to charge them concerning their social media accounts they have using fictional identities where they read of crimes being committed and choose to ignore them or those others who became cyber criminals and are still connected and are receiving intel from State and Federal Police & the Spooks to carry out extortion on those they think are financial enough to plunder . .

  10. Wouldn’t be fun if their ‘law’ was reciprocal?
    You ask me a question, I ask you a *clarifying question*.

    A *clarifying question*, which will always tie back to the biggest crime in human history (2020 ongoing) – the deliberate democide or injury of the Oz population, mandated by government leaders, strong-armed by the various police leaders in parallel with military leadership, overseen by the likes of ASIO top ranks, endorsed by the treasonous snake-like entities of UnaParty, facilitated by anti-humanists in TGA, ATAGI, AMA, etc, all ignored or obfuscated by most legal and medical professionals and hidden and glossed over by the lying MSM minions:
    Why did you support and take part in, and continue to take part in and support, the biggest crime in human history?

  11. Welll sports fans, these grubament entities ( I wont call them human ) bought them into this once great nation of ours, we are slowly being turned into a third world sh’@ Ho&e
    all by design of course its the Hegelian dialectic that’s been played out in front of us, create a problem , then the vegetables in society scream “do something about it” and the grubament of the day trots forward a solution to enslave us even more.
    My opinion is we are not going to vote our way out of this garbage for government, BUT in our sphere of influence no matter how small we can all make changes to our lives no matter how small those changes are, talk to people around us, those that cant see the problems or wont get their heads out of the bucket of sand, or are offended cut them out of your life you dont need them they’ll just drag you down to their level,at the end of the day we get the government we deserve. Change starts at an individual level and spreads out, we really have to stand against this evil and that starts individually, then collectively small steps, an example would be shop locally, dont give your hard earned cash to the big duopoly supermarkets aldi falls in this as well, pay with cash where ever you can, stay away from business that wont take cash its their loss not yours, dont use the big four banks, use credit unions or the like, cut up your credit cards, you dont need them, businesses get rid of your overdrafts and loans, its just stuff like that basically taking control of your life.

  12. These movie stars in suits, parading as politickians really have cushy jobs, not too much stress well fed and short working days spent in make up rooms, in front of mirrors groomed for the presentations reading scribes as puppets do.
    Have some sympathy for troops on the ground. 50% of police leaving suffering PTSD. These young men are put on 14 hour shifts, rotating between days and nights, coping abuse and spat on. People naively thinking cops are to blame, as the fat cats who enforce these draconian laws ride in comfort taking all the lurks and perks for selling their souls to the beasts with horns on all bases loaded.

  13. I’ll trust Elbow and the government when they arrest themselves. In the UK they say Sir Queir is leading the Labour Party off the lemming cliff, they say he has lost Wales and Scotland and the Reform Party is poised to take over. The crooked M$M calls Reform an “anti-immigration” party. All these crooks and minions will never arrest themselves, the minions should realise by now they are backing losers, this includes M$M minions. I see the leadership of Channel 7 got switched a few days ago, they did a half-decent report on the windmills scam then they were scheduled to do a “sovereign citizen” report but wimped out in the end and made it into the usual crappy hit piece. The change of Channel 7 leadership was not mentioned anywhere I saw except the Murdoch Press. So they can go back to men in bear suits, cooking shows, financial tips like consolidate your super, and good old TV sport.

  14. I have it on good authority that the woman running the AFP considers social media to be a waste of her time that she has more important matters to attend to than reading the crap we write .
    If they were serious about countering terrorism that would ban political parties like the ALP & the LNP & the Greens & Teals for their disharmony they perpetuate on the populace of Australia .

  15. ———-
    Senator Alex Antic said – “… The Labor government has announced $74 million over two years for a new Counter-Terrorism Online Centre led by ASIO and the Australian Federal Police…”
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    Oh, you mean the Australian Federal Police who MICROWAVED TWO MILLION innocent unsuspecting unarmed peaceful Australian men women children & babies with MILITARY WEAPONS there in Canberra just a few years back? The Australian Federal Police who REFUSED to fess up to their blatant completely unprovoked WAR CRIME ATROCITY unless first given FULL 100% IMMUNITY from any prosecution? You mean THAT Australian Federal Police?
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    And Senator Alex Antic said – “… Teams of analysts and sophisticated AI tools will scour these spaces for extremist material and work to disrupt potential threats…”
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    “Threats” against THEM, not US.
    REPEAT – the “threats” are against THEM and their CONTROL over US.
    Because after all, they get to kill US but we don’t get to kill THEM, and that’s the way they LIKE IT, and they’ll KILL you to KEEP it that way.
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    Remember the fake BIOWEAPON “vaccine” and all the GOVERNMENT BONUSES paid to “health care professionals” and hospitals to KILL YOU? Remember Granny being BASHED TO DEATH in the middle of the street in BROAD DAYLIGHT? Do you REMEMBER?
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    And then Senator Alex Antic said – “… The stated concern is that too many young Australian men are being radicalised online…”
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    IOW too many young Australians are WAKING UP to the festering nest of TREASONOUS MASS MURDERING ARSEHOLES that have our country by the THROAT.
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    And just BTW, how many is “too many”? ASIO and the Australian Federal Police were PUBLICLY BUSTED running covert programs to RADICALISE and EXPLOIT vulnerable young Australians, so apparently “too many” is STILL not enough for THEM. Surprise!
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    And I’ll be buggered if Senator Alex Antic didn’t say – “… Nobody wants to see young men drawn into violent and dangerous ideologies…”
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    Of course not, who in the world besides ASIO and the Australian Federal Police would want THAT to happen?
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    Which is why they organise and pull ridiculous incompetent BS like the Bondi False Flag “massacre” and ALL THE REST. And don’t mention Port Arthur, folks, don’t even MENTION it, because everyone knows THEY DUNNIT.
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    And that’s why they’re FLOODING Australia with MILLIONS of Third World immigrants RIGHT NOW, folks, because perish the thought there’d be any premise for impoverishing and starving and grinding Australians down into the dirt and assaulting and torturing and poisoning and shooting them in the face just in time for the GREAT RESET.
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    And Senator Alex Antic also mentioned – “… These compulsory questioning powers allow ASIO to force individuals, including non-suspects and those as young as 14, to appear for questioning that can last many hours, with up to five years’ imprisonment for non-compliance…”
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    Yeah, five years in the slammer, folks, that should give them ample time to “suicide” you at their leisure.
    Oh what the Hell, they’ll just KILL you okay?
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    And blow me down if Senator Alex Antic didn’t say – “… The government should focus squarely on the ideologies driving actual violence instead of casting a wide net over everyday Australians…”
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    Yeah, woulda coulda shoulda. OF COURSE the fake foreign-owned CORPORATE “government” is focused squarely on the ideologies driving actual violence because THEY’RE the ones who are DRIVING IT.
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    “Instead of casting a wide net over everyday Australians”???
    “Instead of”? INSTEAD OF?
    “Casting a wide net over everyday Australians” to corral and oppress and persecute and terrorise and smother and EXTERMINATE ALL OF US is the WHOLE POINT.
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    Have we ALREADY forgotten Canberra, folks? They MICROWAVED TWO MILLION Australians, and that was just because they COULD and felt like having a bit of FUN, a wee bit of UNTOUCHABLE fun just to remind us all who’s CALLING THE SHOTS. Do you really think they aren’t already planning to finish off the REST of us?
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    There’s an EASY solution to all this “ideological violence” here in Australia, folks, and it involves sturdy rope and lamp posts. For THEM, not us.

  16. Bad goy, bad goy,,, whatcha gonna do,,, whatcha-gonna-do-when-they-come-for-you…?
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    https://cairnsnews.org/2025/12/27/major-video-flaws-in-official-bondi-narrative/
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    Fake.
    Fake.
    Fake.
    “The Strong Hoax & Red Flags of a Fake Mass Shooting”
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/GEEzriuAOcGu
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    Yes, this sort of information—exposure of “extreme” frauds and lies—perpetrated by the worldwide criminal Cult operating behind and with the FALSE-FRONT of our so-called “governments”, might “radicalize” or cause people to DISBELIEVE and DISOBEY and not recognize those frauds as anything but an ORGANIZED CRIME SYNDICATE imposing INSANITY upon the public for fun and profit…and they get to play “God” too, what a great gig, huh?

  17. Government officials that purposely apply removal of God given freedoms need to take note that they will not always have the protection of government once they are out and about in their communities, and karma is coming for them one way or another. It may come from God or it may come from those who were the victims of political overreach.
    Karma … as you sow, so shall you reap … is not conditional and cannot be avoided.
    If you sow the seeds, you will reap the harvest … end of your story !!!

  18. “instead of casting a wide net over everyday Australians”.

    This is the actual point of it These laws, via-a-vis prison security administration, are put in place to protect the middle management that is the Australian Government, not you, or any other group for that matter. It’s the prison guards and administration that want the protection from you.

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