Police are confident they've disrupted a potential terrorist cell following the arrests of two young Sydney men.
Sulayman Khalid, 20, from Regent's Park, who was arrested by police on Tuesday, had documents naming government targets for potential terrorist attacks, police allege.
He was denied bail when he faced Parramatta Local Court on terrorism charges on Wednesday morning.
Another man, 21, will also face the same court on Wednesday after being charged on Tuesday with breaching a control order.
The arrests followed raids last Thursday which uncovered a large number of documents, a rifle, and two shotguns.
The raids were part of Operation Appleby - the same team that carried out sweeping pre-dawn counter-terror raids in Sydney in September.
The seized documents were "designed to clearly facilitate an attack", said Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan.
He declined to go into operational detail, but said there was no specific threat of an attack.
"I am confident that we have disrupted the activity that they were planning," he said in Sydney.
"This is part of ongoing activity."
Eleven people have now been charged under Operation Appleby, which has targeted a nameless group of 15 to 20 people who identify with the cause of militant group Islamic State, Mr Phelan said.
The arrests came on the same day Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned of a "heightened level of terror chatter" in the aftermath of the Martin Place siege.
The terror threat level remains high, meaning an attack is likely, but not imminent.
Khalid will remain behind bars over Christmas after his lawyer did not apply for bail.
The matter was adjourned for mention to Sydney Central Local Court on February 18.
The other man is one of only four Australians to have been given a control order, which puts strict restrictions on a subject's activities.
One was David Hicks in 2007.
Officers continue to sift through the material seized on Thursday.
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