Abbott to attend UN Security Council to discuss ISIL threat

Prime Minister Tony Abbott will today travel to New York for a special United Nations Security Council session as the world struggles to come to grips with the threat posed by ISIL.

US President Barack Obama has convened the meeting, which will discuss the danger facing the West from home-grown terror.

Mr Abbott is expected to present the government's planned new legislation to fellow world leaders and foreign ministers at the event.

The new laws, believed to include extra powers giving police the right to secretly search a suspect's home, and jail terms for inciting terrorism, will go before parliament tomorrow.

Mr Abbott will likely offer the laws as an example of a "first response" against homegrown terrorism, following the recent police raids in Sydney and Brisbane that allegedly disrupted a plot by Islamic extremists to behead random citizens.

Yesterday, Mr Abbott claimed keeping the nation secure would result in freedoms "shifting".

ISIL has also released a message calling for the first time on followers in western nations to kill citizens, including a specific mention of Australians.

The video exhorts ISIL's adherents to murder citizens of all the countries involved in the international coalition now coming to bear on the jihadist organisation.

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