For the first time since unprecedented terrorism laws were imposed in Australia in 2002, the police and intelligence agencies are preparing to lay terrorism-related charges against alleged left-wing activists. The JCTT also alleged that, ten days later, an unnamed “extremist group” posted an online video claiming responsibility for the attack. Lovitt Technologies supplies parts to the global US F-35 fighter jet program, of which both Australia and Israel are members. The Albanese government has continued to defend permitting and facilitating such exports despite mass demonstrations across Australia and internationally against the intensifying US-armed Israeli genocide. Jennings said it signalled official recognition that “Australia faces a type of ideological terrorism,” which he declared “draws on Marxist traditions.”