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Australian Defence Force personnel will be given sweeping new powers to act in response to domestic terror attacks.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and defence minister Marise Payne will today outline the ADF’s new powers, which will make it easier for soldiers to be deployed in support of state and federal police during a terrorist incident and give special forces units legal authority to shoot and kill on domestic soil. At present the ADF can only help in response to a terror incident if state or territory police believe their own capacity is overmatched.

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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper