More funding to root out and stop would-be terrorists could be in next week’s federal budget after the investigation into last year’s Bondi terror attack revealed security agencies have “significantly” reduced their counter-terror budgets since 2020.The Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion’s interim report found funding for National Intelligence Community (NIC) agencies grew from $10.9bn in 2020-21 to $14.3bn in 2024-25, marking an overall increase of 31 per cent.But in reviewing “classified material”, royal commissioner Virginia Bell “observed that despite this overall increase, the proportion of funding allocated to counter-terrorism significantly declined across the NIC over the period from...
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