Australian police foiled a plot to bring down an airliner. Prikme minister calls it a major counter terrorism operation that is running. National and international airports are on raised levels of alert. According to Deutsche Welle quoting Australian radio, Australian police has disrupted 12 major terror plots since 2014. - Whether Labor's latest opening of the old campaign to drop the queen and turn Australia into a republic is counted as one of these, has not been answered specifically.