Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says a West Australian man is being investigated after appearing online in a video railing against the West, entitled 'The Status of Women in Islam'.
"I can confirm that these matters are under investigation," Minister Bishop told reporters in Melbourne.
In the video, Junaid Thorne appears in front of a version of the black flag of Jihad popular across the Middle East, including with the Sunni insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which is also known as ISIL.
"ISIL is a prescribed terrorist organisation and it is an offence to support or promote or engage with terrorist organisations and can be punishiable by severe penalties," Bishop said.
Mr Thorne is not known to have vocalised his support for ISIL.
"We are taking a range of measures to address what we see as a considerable security risk."
West Australian Noongar man Thorne is known to authorities after Saudi Arabian authorities jailed then freed his brother on terrorism-related offences. He spoke exclusively to NITV after being deported from Saudi Arabia.
In a video speech, delivered mostly in English but partly in Arabic, he rails against injustices being perpetrated against Muslims, calling for Muslim men to "defend our sisters".
"Look at other parts of the world. Our sisters being raped by filthy Jews and Christians," Thorne says in the video.
"Islam didn't make men and women equal on the same level."
"The men have their rights and their roles and women also have their rights and their roles."
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