Resource: Commonwealth reviews considering the definition of a ‘terrorist act’

This report summarises all prior Commonwealth reviews that have considered the definition of a ‘terrorist act’ in s 100.1 of the Criminal Code.

This report was commissioned by the INSLM Office and prepared by Dominique Dalla-Pozza (Australian National University), Tamara Tulich (University of Western Australia), Rebecca Ananian-Welsh (University of Queensland), and Keiran Hardy (Griffith University).

© Commonwealth of Australia 2025. Unless otherwise stated, all material presented in the report is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.