{"id":501083,"date":"2026-02-24T14:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501083\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T14:06:11","slug":"anthony-albanese-evacuated-from-the-lodge-following-security-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501083\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Albanese evacuated from The Lodge following security incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been evacuated from The Lodge during a security incident.<\/p>\n

The incident at Mr Albanese’s residence in Canberra sparked a significant police operation, and led to the prime minister being taken to another location for several hours.<\/p>\n

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Federal police have responded to an alleged security threat at The Lodge, the prime minister’s official Canberra residence. (AAP: Mick Tsikas)<\/p>\n

The Australian Federal Police confirmed that at 6pm it responded to an “alleged security incident”.<\/p>\n

“A thorough search of a protection establishment was undertaken and nothing suspicious was located,” the AFP said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“There is no current threat to the community or public safety.”<\/p>\n

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Anthony Albanese was taken to another location following a security incident at The Lodge. (ABC News: Lexie Jeuniewic)<\/p>\n

The AFP is responsible for protecting federal parliamentarians and certain Commonwealth buildings, including The Lodge and Parliament House.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the prime minister said: “We trust the AFP to do their jobs and thank them for their work.”<\/p>\n

The AFP said it would release more details at a later time.<\/p>\n

The Lodge is the official residence of the Australian prime minister in Canberra and is where Mr Albanese and Jodie Haydon were married in November<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Increased threats to MPs<\/p>\n

Politicians across the political spectrum have been dealing with threats, with threatening letters sent to independent senators Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Man charged over death threats, antisemitic abuse of MP<\/a><\/p>\n

A 33-year-old Melbourne man has been charged with allegedly making death threats and antisemitic comments to a federal MP.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In mid 2024, the AFP reported that threats to federal politicians’ safety had doubled<\/a> in the preceding two-year period.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier in February a Melbourne man was charged with making alleged death threats and antisemitic comments towards a federal MP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police alleged the 33-year-old from Reservoir used social media and email to contact a federal MP based in New South Wales several times between January 16 and 18, making death threats and antisemitic comments.<\/p>\n

At that time Mr Albanese said that security arrangements for federal politicians were constantly monitored.<\/p>\n

“We do live in circumstances where the number of threats that have been made towards elected representatives has increased substantially,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We also need to look at why some of this is happening.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been evacuated from The Lodge during a security incident. The incident at Mr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-501083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}