Exclusive: Independent monitor to conduct ‘first principles’ review of what constitutes a terrorist act in wake of Bondi and Wakeley stabbing attacks

The official definition of terrorism will face independent review for the first time since the September 11 attacks in 2001, amid debate over whether it covers the full range of ideologies that pose a threat to modern Australia.

Concerns about the terrorism definition re-emerged this year after the fatal mass stabbings at the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping mall and the stabbing attack on a bishop of the Assyrian Christian Orthodox church in the western Sydney suburb of Wakeley.

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