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The Albanese government has identified violent extremism and terrorism as growing risks within Australia and the region.
It has promised 106.2 million dollars to fund prevention initiatives, if Labor is elected for another term.
'A Safer Australia: Australia’s Counter-Terrorism and Violent Extremism Strategy', includes efforts to identify people at risk of becoming radicalised by extremist groups.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says extremist organisations are targeting young people online - including in gaming communities.
"There are times where we get an opportunity to know where there is a heightened sense of risk. And these counter terrorism policies and policies for countering violent extremism are all about making sure that no stone is left unturned in making sure that we can keep Australians safe."
As part of the action plan, support services will be funded, with education initiatives and fact sheets for guardians and parents.
The Strategy includes advice on how to react to an armed attacker: Escape, Hide, Tell.
Mister Burke says effort has been made to update and improve accessibility of important messages.
"That material has not been made properly available to people through multicultural communities in the way it should be and certainly disability access has not been fully available with respect to that messaging. Those campaigns will now be rolled out in the way that makes sure that information that keeps Australians safe is made available to every Australian."
The plan comes hours after the former Sydney home of a prominent Jewish leader was targeted in an arson and graffiti attack.
Two cars were also torched and defaced with antisemitic slogans, with red paint left on the house in Sydney's East on Friday [[Jan 17]] morning.
It is the latest crime linked with antisemitism in recent months.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke with the ABC, describing the attack as an outrage.
"Another antisemitic attack hat is against everything that we stand for. It is good that yesterday the Australian Federal Police charged a man with allegedly making death threats to members of a Jewish organisation. This is the first charge from Operation Avelite, which I established last month."
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, who is a member of the Jewish community, told the ABC the rise in these crimes was shocking.
"The recent rise in antisemitism that we've seen over the last year has been the worst that I've seen in my lifetime, and it's been shocking. The Albanese Government has pulled all of the levers it can to combat this scourge in Australia. But it's rightly called the world's oldest hatred. It's hard to stamp it out."
The Attorney-General is currently in Tel Aviv, as the Israeli Government is poised to ratify a ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza.
