‘We need tough powers’: Tony Burke addresses Islamic radicalism in Australia

Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burke addresses the issue of Islamic radicalisation in Australia following reports from the UAE that the Flydubai pilot’s shift towards extremism started in Melbourne. “We have to make sure that we’ve got tough powers, and I’ve been using them, to be able to scan and assess whether someone has a history of being a problem before we give them a visa,” Mr Burke told News24 Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “We have to…not only look at who comes over the border, but look at what comes over the browser. “We need to be monitoring where Australians are going online in those sorts of networks and do the same sort of interception work.”