Australia terror threat

No obviously you don't have to visit anywhere if you don't want too.
It's not compulsory.
I just find it odd to not ever travel places in your own country.
Don't you ever wake up on a lovely sunny Bank Holiday and think "lets go to Bournemouth for the day" ?

@PerkyOchrePeer I am getting really curious.
You say you stick to your home town and haven't visited anywhere in the UK except Somerset (and Mull?) so when you thought "I really fancy a holiday" what made you choose Australia?
Did you not want to start small and visit Whitby or Dundee or Llandudno or Belfast or the Tebay Services on the M6 or literally anywhere in the UK??

This is nuts. Astonishes me how bad people are at assessing actual risk.

Ermmm....the UK has loads of different cultures for you to discover and visit.
I mean it's 4 countries in 1 😂

your mate sounds very ignorant

@PerkyOchrePeer I find it absolutely fascinating that you are happy to spend the £££££ that it must cost to travel to Australia yet you've have no interest in travelling in the UK (except Somerset 😁).
Why don't you want to explore your own country?

It was the way the OP used the name that seemed offensive.

The risk is similar to the U.K. possibly lower, chance of it happening again but not likely. Same for Western European countries more generally. Other countries are actually far higher risk

Or the London bus bombing or the Ariane Grande bomb attack/Southport/London/Notts stabnings. Prob been more shark attacks in Australia

The whole of the western world is under the same terrorist threat. At least Australia has recently undergone an attack, therefore security will be tight.

I am Australian- aboriginal is not considered offensive and is commonly used. Aborigine is what is considered offensive these days.

and yes I know. We open every large gathering of people with a thing called ‘welcome to country’ usually by an aboriginal person and they say aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people as part of it. You can even see it at big sports events.

I’d brush up on your terminology prior to your visit (assuming this thread isn't a windup) — the way you’re using the term aboriginal is outdated and can be offensive.

Saying “an aboriginal” reduces a person to a label. In Australia, we say Indigenous Person, First Nations Person, or if you must Aboriginal person. Language matters, especially when you’re describing violence and racism.

Edit = typo

No, not exclusively, but that seems to be the current, more preferred term here.

I'm Australian. I am not concerned about terror threats any more than I have been previously. That doesn't mean I'm not concerned & don't think more should be done (ASIO is a joke) but this incident hasn't made me more scared, just more sad.

The spiders aren't the issue right now... It's snakes on the move and it's bloody hot.

Australia is a huge place and the likely hood of getting caught in a terrorist attack is really remote. More likely to have to escape a bush fire at this time of year, or some other weather related event.
There is really no terror free country left in the world.

I’d still go. I travel around London a lot and don’t even think about it and we are a big target too. Just live your life, if your time is up, its up.

And no, no one is really changing their life here at all. It was one religious attack on an annual Jewish celebration in an area known to have a very high Jewish population. There is no high terrorist alert here in Australia.

Indigenous is the preferred term here in Australia. Rarely 'First Nations'. But it's not an Australian term per se.

BTW, our terror threat level remains unchanged in Australia despite the Bondi shootings. That was two crazy dickheads with weapons. One dead, one who is charged with 15 murders and unlikely to ever walk free again. They are no threat now.

Plus we’re about to have another national gun buy back, and potentially a gun amnesty. When the federal government returns to parliament next year they’ll be tightening up gun ownership laws and limiting how many guns a person can own.

@PerkyOchrePeer Please don’t come to Australia. You’re what we call a whinging Pom. Terrible for your country’s image. I find it very sad that you went to somewhere like Kangaroo Island and found it boring. It’s about native wildlife there and the environment, not architecture. If you want architecture then find some cities that have the sort that you want. Plenty of colonial era buildings you can go see, or from the 1800s, or churches, or modern architecture. You can see buildings in any country. You won’t find our natural environment and animals anywhere else in the world.

Your Jewish mate is talking out of her arse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_synagogue_attack

Two attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_massacre_(Australia).

One reason Australia is so safe is that immediately after the above, the government of the day instigated an immense gun buy back, which has been regularly repeated by various states, and strongly tightened our gun ownership laws.