A terror offender who was paralysed from the neck down during an altercation with prison guards is challenging whether later decisions to hold him separate from other inmates were lawful.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton may be investigated by the national security watchdog after a judge referred him over the detainment of Abdul Nacer Benbrika.
"I know the bloke who done it, he's my mate," the boy wrote in relation to the April 15 stabbing attack on Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at Wakeley in western Sydney.
"Over the last 18 months, we have seen an uptick in the number of nationalist and racist violent extremists advocating sabotage in private conversations both here and overseas."
The head of Russia's national security council contended that the United States shares blame for the attack by gunmen on a Moscow concert hall that killed 145 people, even though a branch of the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility.