David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The answer is: try him. Do not let him go. Do not release him on bail to report daily to the local cop shop. Try him—incarcerate him until the veracity of those stories is determined. The Military Commissions Act says:

Any person subject to this chapter who provides material support or resources, knowing or intending that they are to be used in preparation for, or in carrying out, an act of terrorism ... or who intentionally provides material support or resources to an international terrorist organization engaged in hostilities against the United States, knowing that such organization has engaged or engages in terrorism ... shall be punished as a military commission under this chapter may direct.

‘Material support’ is defined as:

... any property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (1 or more individuals who may be or include oneself), and transportation, except medicine or religious materials ...

He is charged with aiding and abetting a terrorist organisation, to put it in more Australian terminology.