CANBERRA, ACT, May 12 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release:
This is a joint media release by the Australian Federal Police, ACT Policing and ASIO.
A Canberra teenager has been charged by the ACT Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) with additional terrorism offences, including acts in preparation for a terrorist act.
The youth, 17, is the first person to be charged with planning a terrorist act in the ACT.
It is alleged the teenager was planning an attack on people not known to him, motivated by views aligned with nationalist and racist extremism.
The young person appeared in the ACT Children's Court today (12 May, 2026), to face the following charges:
* One count of acts in preparation, or planning for, a te...