Timeline of Australia's terrorist attacks

As the nation deals with the latest terror-related incident in Melbourne's bayside suburb of Brighton, here is a list of past terror attacks to hit Australian soil.

2017

JUNE 5

A man was shot dead in the foyer of a Brighton serviced apartment by a gunman, named by police as Yacqub Khayre. He was holding a prostitute hostage before opening fire on police who shot him dead.

2016

SEPTEMBER 10

Ihsas Khan, 22, was charged with committing a terrorist act and attempted murder after stabbing 57-year-old Wayne Greenhalgh several times at a park in Minto.

2015

OCTOBER 2

Fifteen-year-old Farhad Jabar killed 58-year-old police accountant, Curtis Cheng, in a shooting outside the Parramatta police headquarter before he was shot dead by officers.

2014

DECEMBER 15

Self-proclaimed Muslim sheikh, Man Haron Monis, took 17 people hostage inside Sydney's Lindt cafe. Hostages Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson died while another four people, including a police officer, were injured.

SEPTEMBER 23

Numan Haider, 18, stabbed two officers outside Endeavour Hills police station before he was shot dead.

2009

AUGUST

Wissam Mahmoud Fattal, Saney Edow Aweys and Nayef El Sayed were jailed in 2011 for 18 years with a minimum of 13-and-a-half-years over a plot to kill as many people as possible in a mass shooting at Holsworthy Army base in south west Sydney.

2005

Five men, including radical Muslim cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika were found guilty of plotting to cause mass casualties at landmark Melbourne sites including the Melbourne Cricket Ground when it was packed with almost 100,000 fans on AFL grand final day.

2003

Sydney architect Faheem Khalid Lodhi was convicted over a 2003 plot to bomb the national electricity grid and various defence sites in the cause of violent jihad. His intended targets in Sydney included Victoria Barracks, HMAS Penguin naval base and the Holsworthy army barracks. He was sentenced to 20 years.