Detect, Disrupt and Deny: Optimising Australia´s Counterterrorism Financing System

Simon Norton, Paula Chadderton 

This paper examines the nature of terrorist financing and the Australian/international measures being applied against the phenomenon. While exploring this theme, the text’s authors also 1) analyze how terrorist organizations raise, move and use their funds; 2) confirm that terrorism financing in neither new nor dominated by groups in the Middle East; and 3) conclude that the systems and actors that are fighting terrorist financing are robust, but could be improved.