Questions for the federal government about ISIS brides’ return

by Peter Jennings | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured, Policy

Anthony Albanese is hiding his government’s involvement to return the third group of so-called “jihadi brides” to Australia, apparently before Christmas. These are women who are currently in refugee camps in northern Syria, who travelled to that region to support the...

Role of crime in anti-Semitic attacks is a complicating factor, not a cleansing one

by Peter Jennings | Mar 16, 2025 | Policy, Uncategorized

It was all a criminal hoax. That was the headline from this week’s police admission that the explosives-packed caravan found in January at Dural in Sydney’s northwest was never going to cause a mass casualty event. What about the list of Jewish targets found with the...

Our hospitals won’t cope with a mass-casualty event

by Anthony Bergin and Tony Joseph | Feb 12, 2025 | Policy

In January, a caravan was found in Sydney packed with explosives with a note in the vehicle listing Jewish addresses, including a synagogue.  Places of worship have long been terrorist targets because of their symbolic value and limited security...

The PM plays spectator as the terrorism threat grows

by Peter Jennings | Jan 7, 2025 | Policy

Investigations into the terror attack on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans continue to move fast, with the emerging picture about the assailant, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, becoming more complex. On Friday morning 3 January AEDT, an FBI spokesman told a...

Not alert and not alarmed: our complacency puts us at risk, politically and socially

by Peter Jennings | Jan 3, 2025 | Policy

[Note to SAA readers: This article appeared in The Australian on 03 January 2025. Overnight the FBI investigation of the attack concluded that Shamsud-Din Jabbar probably planted two IEDs in the vicinity of Bourbon Street himself, before engaging in his vehicle...