<p>Children as young as 12 among dozens subject to federal police operations since 2020, parliamentary inquiry hears</p><p>Australia is facing a “tsunami” of youth crime as artificial intelligence accelerates the pace and scale of radicalisation, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.</p><p>The Australian federal police acting deputy commissioner Sandra Booth told the hearing on Wednesday that, while radicalisation had traditionally taken years or months, that process could now happen within days.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/21/afp-warns-australia-of-tsunami-of-youth-and-radicalisation-accelerated-by-ai">Continue reading...</a>