Designated terrorist organisations in Australia


Designated terrorist organisations in Australia are organisations that have been designated by the Australian government as terrorist organisations. A list of terrorist organisations was created under the Security Legislation Amendment Act 2002, as part of the fight against terrorism worldwide. The Act was passed by the Australian Parliament, "enabling Australian governments to deal with organisations involved in terrorism," and inserted a range of terrorist organisation offences into the Criminal Code Act 1995. For example, the Act made it an offense to materially support or be supported by a listed terrorist organisation. Under Division 103 of the Criminal Code, it is illegal to finance terrorism. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre monitors financial transactions involving listed terrorist organisations.
For listing as a terrorist organisation, an organisation may be found to be such by a court as part of a prosecution for a terrorist offence or the designation may be made by regulation upon the motion of the Attorney-General of Australia under Division 102 of the Criminal Code Act 1995. Listing, de-listing and re-listing follows a protocol that mainly involves the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Attorney-General's Department. Such action in general is not made with reference to designations made or proposed by other countries or multinational organisations.

List of designated terrorist organisations

the Australian government lists 26 foreign organisations as terrorist organisations:
In addition, Hamas was listed in July 2014. It was removed from the list by January 2015.

Terrorism financing laws

Australian anti terrorism financing laws include:
These offences sanction persons and entities under Australian and international law. The responsibility of prosecuting these offences in Australia rests with the Australian Federal Police, State police forces and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.