List of terrorist incidents in Australia

List of incidents in Australia where an organised group, or an individual claiming an association with such a group, attempts or plans an act of violence targeting innocents.

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location and description
17 January 1971	Bombing	0	0	The Soviet embassy in Canberra was attacked by a crude bomb that was thrown over a security fence. There were a number of theories at the time of who the perpetrators were, but no-one has ever been apprehended or charged.
16 September 1972	Bombing	0	16	Sydney Yugoslav General Trade and Tourist Agency bombing - The bombing occurred in Haymarket, Sydney and injured sixteen people. The perpetrators of the attack were believed to be Croatian separatists.
13 February 1978	Bombing	3	11	Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing - a bomb exploded outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, which was hosting the first Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting. Two garbage collectors and a police officer were killed and eleven others were injured. As a result of the bombing, ASIO's powers and budget were greatly expanded. It was also a motivation for the formation of the Australian Federal Police.
17 December 1980	Shooting	2	0	Sydney Turkish Consul General assassination - Sydney Turkish Consul General Şarık Arıyak and his security attaché Engin Sever were assassinated by two people on motorcycles wielding firearms in Sydney. The Justice Commandos for the Armenian Genocide claimed responsibility but the culprits were never identified and no charges were laid. The Consul General was gunned down despite having taken precautions in the form of not travelling in the official consulate Mercedes Benz vehicle and instead being chauffeured in the trailing security attaché's car.
23 December 1982	Bombing	0	0	Sydney Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club bombings - The two bombings occurred within five hours of each other. The initial case led to a single arrest though charges were later dropped. In 2011, the NSW police and Australian federal police reopened the case citing new leads.
23 November 1986	Bombing	0 (+1 perpetrator)	0	Melbourne Turkish consulate bombing - a car bomb exploded in a carpark beneath the Turkish Consulate in South Yarra, Victoria, killing the bomber who failed to correctly set up the explosive device. Levon Demirian, a Sydney resident with links to the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, was charged over the attack and served 10 years.
1988	Bombing	0	0	Jack van Tongeren and the ANM - Throughout the late 1980s, West Australian neo-Nazi group "The Australian Nationalist Movement", led by Jack van Tongeren, engaged in a series of bombings of Asian restaurants and businesses, political violence, murder of a suspected informant and other acts to intimidate the Asian population. Van Tongeren was imprisoned until his release in the early-mid 2000s. He resumed his activities until he was re-arrested in 2004 as part of Operation Atlantic, prompting a judge to order him to leave the state.
17 June 1995	Bombing	0	0	1995 bombing of the French Consulate in Perth, Western Australia - terrorists firebombed the French Consulate in Perth.
16 July 2001	Shooting	1	0	Abortion clinic attack (2001) - Peter James Knight, described as an "obsessive anti-abortionist" who lived alone in a makeshift camp in rural New South Wales, attacked the East Melbourne Family Planning clinic, a privately run clinic providing abortions, carrying a rifle, and large quantities of kerosene and lighters. He shot and killed a security guard at the clinic before his capture and arrest. He was charged and convicted of murder, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non-parole period of 23 years. Though Knight was not charged with any specific terrorism offences, Australian terrorism academic Clive Williams listed the attack amongst incidents of politically motivated violence in Australia.
29 May 2003	Attempted Hijacking	0	0	QantasLink Flight 1737 - An afternoon Australian domestic flight from Melbourne Airport to Launceston Airport, which was subject to an attempted hijacking.
4 August 2009	Planned Attack	0	0	Holsworthy Barracks terror plot - Five arrested for an Islamist terrorist plot uncovered in August 2009 targeting Holsworthy Barracks—an Australian Army training area with automatic weapons. Given lengthy prison terms, the judge called them an ongoing threat to society as long as they were unrepentant of their jihadist attitudes. Connected with the Somali-based terrorist group al-Shabaab.
23 September 2014	Stabbing	0 (+1 perpetrator)	2	2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings - 18-year-old Numan Haider stabbed two counter-terrorism officers in Endeavour Hills, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was then shot dead. He had just recently had his passport canceled for fears he would join ISIL. Haider was carrying two knives and the Black Standard flag.
15 December 2014	Hostage Crisis and Shooting	2 (+1 perpetrator)	4	2014 Sydney hostage crisis - Man Haron Monis, a lone gunman, held hostage ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt chocolate café located at Martin Place in Sydney, Australia. The Sydney siege lead to a 16-hour standoff, during which 3 gunshots were heard from inside over a period of time. The first two shots were fired in the general direction of fleeing hostages and were left unopposed by on scene police command, however police officers from the Tactical Operations Unit stormed the café after reports the third shot was the execution of hostage Tori Johnson. Hostage Katrina Dawson was killed by a ricocheted bullet fragment in the subsequent raid. Monis was also killed. Three other hostages and a police officer were injured by police gunfire during the raid.
10 February 2015	Planned Attack	0	0	Fairfield Raids - police in Sydney were tipped off two Islamic jihadists preparing terror attacks, arrested after observed purchasing weapons. They had already made a martyrdom video.
2 October 2015	Shooting	1 (+1 perpetrator)	0	2015 Parramatta shooting - 15 year old Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, an Iraqi-Kurd, shot dead Curtis Cheng, a civilian employee of the New South Wales Police, before being shot dead by a New South Wales Police special constable during a shootout.
10 September 2016	Stabbing	0	2	2016 Minto stabbing attack - A 22-year-old man inspired by Islamic State stabbed a man before being arrested and charged with attempted murder. He also inflicted minor injuries on a nearby shop owner.
7 April 2017	Stabbing	1	3	2017 Queanbeyan stabbing attacks - On 7 April 2017, a pair of 15 and 16-year-old boys entered a service station in the small town of Queanbeyan in NSW and stabbed 29-year old Zeeshan Akbar of Pakistani descent and Zeeshan soon died at the scene. Three other men were also attacked and injured at the scene. The 16-year old's mother had told police that she believed that her son had been radicalised in recent weeks and that he sympathised with Islamic State and had also posted concerning posts on Facebook.
5 June 2017	Hostage taking, shooting	1 (+1 perpetrator)	3	2017 Brighton siege - Yacqub Khayre shot dead a Chinese-Australian receptionist in a serviced apartment complex and took a sex worker hostage in Brighton, Victoria. Police officers were involved in gunfight with Khayre who was shot dead and three officers wounded. ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described the incident as terrorism, however Victoria Police warned that there was no evidence to suggest he was acting on orders given from overseas. Khayre had previously been charged in relation to the Holsworthy Barracks terror plot but was acquitted in trial. He had recently been released on parole.
9 February 2018	Stabbing	0	1	Momena Shoma, a Bangladeshi national, stabbed a 56-year-old man in the neck while he was asleep at his Callistemon Rise home in Mill Park, Victoria. She has been charged with engaging in a terrorist act and it's alleged she was inspired by terror group Islamic State.
9 November 2018	Stabbing	1(+1 perpetrator)	2	2018 Melbourne stabbing attack - An attack that took place in Melbourne, when Hassan Khalif Shire Ali set fire to a Holden Rodeo utility on Bourke Street in the city's Central Business District. He then stabbed three pedestrians, killing one and wounding the other two. During the attack, the Holden "exploded" from the fire. Hassan Khalif was shot in the chest by a Victoria Police officer and died in hospital.
17 December 2020	Stabbing	2 (+1 perpetrator)	0	Raghe Abdi, a Sudanese-Australian radicalised ISIS supporter, murder of an elderly couple in their Brisbane home in Parkinson, Queensland.
18 February 2021	Arson	0	0	Brothers Aran and Ari Sherani and an unnamed 16 year old lit multiple fires in Victorian bushland in support of ISIL in February 2021. The fires were lit in Humevale and Kinglake West, but failed in causing widespread damage and harm to the public.Aran Sherani was later involved in a March 2021 assault with police while armed with a knife. On 8 November 2023, a Supreme Court jury found Aran Sherani guilty of terror offences.
28 February 2021
17 November 2022 and 23 November 2022	Firebombing	0	0	Police launched investigations into two suspicious fires at Australian political commentator, journalist, stand-up comedian and YouTuber Jordan Shanks' house in Bondi, one on 17 November 2022 and one on 23 November. In a statement, Shanks' lawyers claimed that his home had been "firebombed" and hoped that police would dedicate "every resource possible" to investigate what happened.
12 December 2022	Shooting	3 (+3 perpetrators)	2	Wieambilla shootings - A religiously motivated terrorist attack which involved the ambush and killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland. The three perpetrators, brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train, and Gareth's wife, Stacey Train, were subsequently shot and killed by responding police. The shootings were labelled as Australia's first fundamentalist Christian terrorist attack.

See also

• Terrorism in Australia
• Crime in Australia
• Timeline of major crimes in Australia