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Thursday 12 Feb 2015 - 11:30 Makkah mean time-23-4-1436  Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott /AFP/Getty Images Sydney (IINA) – Australia will step up its border security measures to help fight terrorism in the country, following the latest security threat in Sydney, Xinhua news agency reported.
"At every level, we are lifting our game when it comes to national security," Prime Minister Tony Abbott told radio station 3AW on Thursday.
His comments were prompted by the arrest of two suspected "lone wolf" terrorists on Tuesday, the third such terror-related incident in Australia over the past six months.
In September, two police officers were injured and their assailant was killed outside a Melbourne police station, while in December, a 17-hour siege occurred in Sydney's downtown café, resulting in the death of two hostages and the gunman.
Two men were arrested by police in a suburb of Sydney on Tuesday just hours before executing an alleged terror plot.
Abbott's comments were supported by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton who suggested that one of the terror suspects may have arrived illegally more than five years ago, raising concerns about Australia's "porous" border security under the previous Labor government.
Abbott acknowledged that internal threats were on the rise, and said that terrorist groups were "broadcasting around the world to grab a knife, a flag, an iPhone and a victim".
He told parliament on Wednesday that the rise of home-grown radicals will be an ongoing problem and that constant vigilance was required to keep the nation safe.
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