Terror alert: Welfare cuts for suspected jihad supporters

9/13/2014

Security boosted to combat terror risk

WELFARE payments will be stripped from people within Australia suspected of supporting terrorism under a crackdown on funding for Islamic State fighters in Iraq and other terror groups.

And the Federal Government may also be considering forcibly relocating terrorism suspects away from fellow extremists.

“The Government will introduce legislation to ensure welfare payments can be terminated for people who have been assessed as a serious threat to Australia’s national security,” Attorney-General George Brandis’s departmental spokeswoman said.

“This measure will ensure Australian taxpayers are not financing people known to be members of, or working with, terrorist organisations or otherwise engaged in activity that would be prejudicial to the security of Australia or a foreign country.”

Controversial “relocation” laws — now being considered in the UK — enable authorities to force terrorism suspects to live in other areas of the country to remove them from radicalised associates.

Australian government legal advisers will closely watch the rollout of British laws banning dual-national jihadists from returning home from Iraq and Syrian conflict zones.

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