151 Offences against national security

Offences against national security are acts or omissions that threaten or diminish the effective enforcement of government operations concerned with the preservation of national security. 

This group is for offences relating to terrorist acts and terrorism organisation offences.

Terrorist act offences include:

• Advocating terrorism
• Being engaged in a terrorist act
• Financing terrorism, and financing a terrorist
• Planning a terrorist act
• Possessing things connected with terrorist acts
• Preparing for a terrorist act
• Receiving training connected with terrorist acts
• Training others for terrorist acts

Terrorism organisation offences include:

• Associating with a terrorist organisation
• Directing the activities of a terrorist organisation
• Getting funds to, from or for a terrorist organisation
• Membership of a terrorist organisation
• Providing support to a terrorist organisation
• Recruiting for a terrorist organisation
• Training involving a terrorist organisation

A terrorist organisation is an organisation that is engaged in preparing, planning, assisting, or fostering the doing of a terrorist act – or that the Australian or New Zealand government has formally listed as a terrorist organisation or designated terrorist entity. 

Where terrorist acts lead to another offence, that offence may also be coded separately.

• Conspire, prepare, or plan a terrorist act
• Donate to, or recruit for, a terrorist organisation
• Incite, foster, or commit a terrorist act
• Membership in, or association with, a terrorist organisation
• Promote a terrorist organisation
• Provide funds or other resources to a terrorist organisation
• Train others for terrorist activities
• Other terrorism offences

• Consorting offences related to a criminal organisation that is not a terrorist organisation – coded to 1212 Unlawful association
• Terrorist attack causing death – coded to 0110 Murder
• Tamper with aircraft to endanger safety – coded to 0499 Harm or endanger persons, nec

This group is for offences against national security that are not elsewhere classified.

• Burn a flag
• Disclose, buy, or sell, national secrets
• Espionage against government
• Foreign incursion offences
• Foreign interference offences
• Impersonate a police officer, border security officer or justice official
• Incite or enact mutiny
• Interfere with defence force operations, where the act does not amount to terrorism
• Passport or visa fraud
• Resist or hinder a government security officer
• Resist or hinder a member of the Australian or New Zealand defence forces
• Sedition
• Treason
• Other offences against national security not elsewhere classified

• Denial of service attack on a government department – coded to 0842 Unlawful harm to a digital system
• Interfere with the work of a police officer or judicial officer – coded to 1422 Resist or hinder a police officer or justice official
• Peaceful protest causing disruption to commercial activities or community services – coded to 1229 Disruptive conduct, nec
• Theft of personal data from a government organisation – coded to 0841 Privacy offences