Resource: United Nations and Five Eyes comparison

This report compares Australia’s legal definition of terrorism with: United Nations best practice; and with our Five Eyes partners (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand).

This report was commissioned by the INSLM Office and prepared by Keiran Hardy (Griffith University), Rebecca Ananian-Welsh (University of Queensland), Tamara Tulich (University of Western Australia) and Dominique Dalla-Pozza (Australian National University). This report was prepared in June 2025 and some laws may have changed after this report was prepared.

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