The Australian has reported Peter Dutton was the target of an alleged terror plot, with a 16-year-old boy facing charges in the Supreme Court, after being arrested in August last year.

The child can not be named for legal reasons.

Labor minister Anika Wells is doing media this morning and she was asked about the story on ABC News Breakfast:

To the exact story you’re talking about obviously it’s before the courts so I can’t say too much about it but you would have seen the AFP Commissioner speak earlier in estimates this year about the rise in threats against politicians, certainly that’s – we have notice that locally.

It is concerning. You think about your family, I guess, who are the unwitting con scripts to your work or the impact and the threats that might be on them in particular, so my heart goes out to that family and we praise the AFP for their good work.