Ali Khalif was sentenced to ten years jail, with a seven and a half year non-parole period. 2020 Brisbane stabbing attack On 19 December 2020, a knifeman killed two elderly people after storming their home and then tried to attack police officers on a highway in Brisbane. The attacker, who was shot dead by police, had been identified as a 22-year old-man who had a long history of mental health issues and escaped a GPS tracking bracelet the previous night. He was previously arrested in early 2019 attempting to travel on a one-way ticket to Somalia and arrested “on suspicion of an attempted foreign incursion”. Allegations against him were dropped by the AFP “due to a lack of evidence”. The AFP spoke after the incident and said that there was no terror threat posed by the man. Wieambilla police killings (2022) Brothers Nathaniel and Gareth Train, along with Gareth's wife Stacey, murdered two police officers who they knew were conducting a concern for welfare check for Nathaniel. They then killed their next door neighbour then attempted to kill two other police officers before posting a gloating YouTube video in dialogue with an omnibus of troll grievances from the fringes of right wing movements such as extremely unverified anti vax conspiracy theories, disaffected off grid lifestylers and pro gun agenda Christian right. A shootout with police ensued later that night and the three of them were killed. Notable terror plots Australian police claim to have disrupted a significant number of terrorism plots since 2014. Bob Hawke assassination plot In 1975, the Palestinian Black September terrorist group and the Australian branch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group plotted to assassinate future Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke, then Australian Labor Party president, along with a number of notable journalists seen as being pro-Israel. A Black September member visited Australia under the guise of a journalist and was provided with materials from Australian PFLP members and returned to Israel; the Black September member who intended to carry out the attack was killed by Israeli forces before he could return to Australia. Faheem Khalid Lodhi Faheem Khalid Lodhi is an Australian architect accused of an October 2003 plot to bomb the national electricity grid or Sydney defence sites in the cause of violent jihad. He was convicted by a New South Wales Supreme Court jury in June 2006 on