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12 Sep 2014:
Australia's terrorism alert level has been raised from medium to high. The change announced by Tony Abbott means a terrorist attack is now considered "likely". He stressed it did not mean a terrorist attack was imminent. "We have no specific intelligence of particular plots," he told reporters in Melbourne. The move was foreshadowed by the Asio director-general, David Irvine, earlier this week amid fears that Australians returning from the battlefields of Syria and Iraq could pose a danger.