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Australia: Listing of terrorist organisations

For an effective counter-terrorism regime, it is vital that our laws target not only terrorist acts, but also the organisations that plan, finance and carry out such acts. In 2002, a range of new terrorist organisation offences were enacted enabling the Government to deal with organisations involved in terrorism.
  • Security Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2002
These offences apply in relation to ‘terrorist organisations’. Under the law, there are two ways for an organisation to be identified as a 'terrorist organisation'. Either an organisation may be found to be such an organisation by a court as part of the prosecution for a terrorist offence, or it may be specified in Regulations, known as ‘listing’. For a listing to be effective, the processes set out in the legislation must be followed.

The Government has prepared a listing protocol outlining the process and requirements that apply to the listing of terrorist organisations.

There are 18 organisations now officially listed. They are:
  • Abu Sayyaf Group
  • Al-Qa'ida (AQ)
  • Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
  • Al-Qa’ida in Iraq (AQI) (formerly listed as Al-Zarqawi and TQJBR)
  • Al-Qa’ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
  • Al-Shabaab
  • Ansar al-Islam (formerly known as Ansar al-Sunna)
  • Hamas’s Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades
  • Hizballah External Security Organisation
  • Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
  • Jabhat al-Nusra
  • Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
  • Jamiat ul-Ansar (JuA) formerly known as Harakat Ul-Mujahideen
  • Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) -
  • Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
  • Lashkar-e Jhangvi (LeJ)
  • Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT)
  • Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Source:
http://www.nationalsecurity.gov.au/agd/www/nationalsecurity.nsf/AllDocs/95FB057CA3DECF30CA256FAB001F7FBD

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