The federal government won’t say how many boys aged under 14 are on the radar of counter-terrorism authorities.
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Family and friends of Mr Cheng will farewell him at his funeral in Sydney on Saturday after he was shot dead outside NSW police headquarters as he was leaving work on October 2.
That court order prohibited Naizmand from communicating with 18 males, including three of the four young males who were arrested and questioned over the execution of NSW Police civilian employee Curtis Cheng earlier this month.
The juvenile is one of more than a dozen people named in a federal court order imposed on a Sydney terrorism suspect earlier this year, the ABC reported.
Mr Colvin acknowledged the links between terrorism and organised crime.
Justice Minister Michael Keenan said a “barbaric terrorist organisation in the Middle East” was reaching out through social media to young Australians.
“The age of the people that we’re concerned about is very concerning”, Mr Colvin said.
“We’re shocked that a 12-year-old is on the police radar for these type of matters, absolutely”, Mr Colvin told the ABC on Wednesday night.
The Law Council of Australia has voiced its concern over the proposed changes to Australia’s counter-terrorism laws, which would see the minimum age for control orders lowered to 14 years old.
‘This threat has evolved, it’s become younger.
‘I do not think it is appropriate for me to go into that, ‘ he said.
“I think what we saw with the event that occurred in Parramatta the Friday before last with a 15-year-old boy who had been inspired to perform a horrendous terrorist act, an act of murder, demonstrates that unfortunately the reach of ISIL and ISIL surrogates and agents in Australia is extending to younger and younger people”, Brandis said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp.
“You can’t contemplate how this is true…”
The Hong Kong-born accountant was leaving the Parramatta police headquarters when Farhad Jabar opened fire and killed him.
The man was arrested in Wentworthville in Sydney’s west last Wednesday following pre-dawn raids in connection to investigations into 15-year-old Farhad Jabar, who gunned down Mr Cheng in Parramatta almost two weeks ago.
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These reportedly included lowering the age of a person who could be slapped with a control order, and lengthening the amount of time a terror suspect can be held in custody without charge.
