CANBERRA, ACT, Feb. 5 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
I can inform the House that the Western Australian Government has confirmed the Western Australia Joint Counter Terrorism Team - comprising WA Police, the Australian Federal Police and ASIO - has charged one man yesterday, a 31-year-old male, with engaging in a terrorist act.
That offence carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
I was briefed yesterday in person by the Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett and the Commissioner of Police for Western Australia, Col Blanch, on the investigation. I thank particularly the Commissioner from WA for travelling here to do an in person briefing.
As an individual has now been charged, ...