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Australian Response: Canberra Revises Threat Alert Level System Australia has implemented a new terrorism threat alert level system, with four levels of alert replacing the existing three classifications, Australian Prime Minister John Howard said today (see GSN, Dec. 16, 2002). The new system includes an “extreme” alert level in addition to the existing low, medium and high classifications. The new level indicates that a terrorist attack is imminent or that one has already occurred, according to Agence France-Presse. The revised system will more accurately inform the public about any potential terrorist threat and help remove confusion, Howard said, adding that the system was not revised because of any new threat information. “We don’t have any information additional to what we have previously received that has led to the reclassification,” Howard said. “I don’t want people to be concerned that we’ve got some new information and that we’re preparing the ground to release that by ordering the (new) classifications,” he said (Agence France-Presse, June 11).
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