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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-24T10:45:11.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nAustralian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been evacuated from his official residence due to a safety threat.\n\nLocal officers have been sent to Mr Albanese's property in Canberra.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nA statement from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said: \"A thorough search of a protection establishment has commenced and is still ongoing.\n\n\"There is no current threat to the community or public safety.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nFormer prime ministerial body guard, told Sky News Australia that evacuating the Prime Minister was a \"significant move\" by authorities.\n\nHe said: \"This isn't a some online threat...there must be some corroboration to it for [police] to act this way.\n\n\"They will have a number of plans, and depending on the the objective or the vector of the threat, those plans will be enacted and the response will be appropriate.\"\n\nIt follows a warning from AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett, who suggested that politicians were being increasingly targeted by violent offenders.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nMs Barrett recently told Senate Estimates that violent offenders have been increasingly targeting politicians and high office holders.\n\nShe said: \"We are witnessing the continued rise of individual grievance, including those who are willing to make threats in the online world and then carry them out.\"\n\nA spokesman from the AFP said they receive hundreds of threats to MPs at all levels of government every year.\n\nPrime Minister Albanese himself has recently been targeted with alleged death threats.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n### LATEST DEVELOPMENTS\n\n\n\n\n  * New Zealand throws support behind removing Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from line of succession\n  * Australia could be forced to take in Isis brides from Shamima Begum's Syrian camp\n  * Bondi Beach shooting suspect living in 'very onerous conditions' claims lawyer\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nThe AFP said it received 1009 reports of incidents for 2023-24 involving harassment, nuisance, offensive and threatening communications against politicians.\n\nDuring the 2025 federal election campaign, the AFP received 51 reports reports relating to a range of alleged offences, including threatening communications targeting MPs.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards:The GB News Editorial Charter **",
  "title": "Australian PM Anthony Albanese evacuated from his house due to safety threat"
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