Are you terrified yet? ASIO has lifted the terror threat level to "probable" from "possible." But the prime minster was quick to calm the herd down by croaking that this does not mean that an imminent attack is forthcoming. Fine; it means that there is a risk of an attack, but they do not know when, hence not "imminent." That makes me feel much "safer": https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-05/asio-lifts-terror-threat-level-to-probable/104141650.
"ASIO's director-general Mike Burgess said Australia's security environment had become more volatile and unpredictable.
"More Australians are being radicalised and being radicalised more quickly," Mr Burgess said.
"More Australians are willing to use violence to advance their cause. Politically motivated violence now joins espionage and foreign interference as our principal security concerns."
So, war in the Middle East will be the possible trigger. At least things have not gone so far in freak-out mode as in the US, where former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has likely been placedon a watchlist of a secret domestic surveillance program designed to detect potential terrorists: https://amgreatness.com/2024/08/06/tulsi-gabbard-on-terrorist-watch-list-the-regime-is-getting-jumpy/. And what has triggered this is Tulsi's criticisms of Kamala Harris. She has said things like: "Biden's out, Kamala is in. Don't be fooled: policies won't change. Just like Biden wasn't the one calling the shots, Kamala Harris won't be either. She is the new figurehead for the deep state and the maidservant of Hillary Clinton, queen of the cabal of warmongers."
Thus, the threshold for being a terrorist today is pretty low.