NSW terrorist manual editor wants parole

A former Qantas cabin cleaner who's served his minimum nine-year jail term for producing a do-it-yourself terrorism manual is challenging a decision to again refuse him parole.

Belal Saadallah Khazaal, then 39, was in 2008 found guilty in the NSW Supreme Court of making a document connected with assistance in a terrorist act and knowing about that connection.

The 110-page book, compiled in September 2003 and titled Provisions Of The Rules of Jihad, was described as a "practical guide to achieving martyrdom". It was published online in Arabic.

The former editor of Call to Islam magazine was jailed for 12 years with a non-parole period of nine years.

In 2011, he was released on bail after the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal allowed a conviction challenge and ordered a retrial.

But he was returned to custody in 2012 when the High Court reinstated his original conviction.

Khazaal is now challenging a decision by the federal attorney-general to again refuse his release on parole. The decision comes a year after he was first refused parole.

In a preliminary brief mention of the case in the Federal Court on Thursday, Khazaal's barrister, Ed Anderson, contended his client had been denied procedural fairness.

Justice Michael Wigney is expected to hear the matter later this year.