{"id":578779,"date":"2026-04-01T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:22:09","slug":"wa-man-charged-with-terrorism-offences-reflected-on-bondi-attacks-in-diary-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578779\/","title":{"rendered":"WA man charged with terrorism offences reflected on Bondi attacks in diary, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 20-year-old man charged with terrorism offences in Western Australia was allegedly preparing for what he called a “day of justice” and wrote about the Bondi attack in his diary, a Perth court has heard at his bail hearing.<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Kirsten Nelson told the Perth Magistrates Court that Jayson Joseph Michaels was motivated by right-wing ideology and had allegedly researched the locks on a Perth mosque.<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer Christian Porter said the case against his client was “weak”, adding that Mr Michaels may require an assessment for autism spectrum disorder.<\/p>\n

Magistrate Belinda Coleman refused bail, saying it was not an “inherently weak case”.<\/p>\n

Terror accused revealed as ex-Christian schoolboy, labourer<\/a><\/p>\n

Jayson Joseph Michaels, 20, left school to undertake a TAFE course in IT and worked as a labourer in Bindoon, the ABC can reveal.<\/p>\n

Mr Michaels is accused of planning terrorist attacks on WA’s Parliament House, mosques, and police headquarters in Perth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He appeared for the hearing via video link from Casuarina Prison, where he was being held in a special handling unit.<\/p>\n

Mr Michaels was charged in February after the state’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team executed a search warrant at his Bindoon home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said they seized firearms and a large knife collection, and that Mr Michaels had allegedly been radicalised online.<\/p>\n

The prosecutor told the court Mr Michaels had wanted to make a gun using a 3D printer and even planned on designing a patch to put on a jacket that he was going to wear while carrying out the alleged attacks.<\/p>\n

Ms Nelson said Mr Michaels had made entries in a diary, which represented a clear expression of “his intent to engage in a terrorist act”.<\/p>\n

She told the court Mr Michaels had reflected on the December attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, allegedly writing in his diary: “What I want to do to both of these groups pales in comparison to today.”<\/p>\n

‘Form of escapism’<\/p>\n

Defence lawyer Mr Porter said the diary entries constituted a “pie-in-the-sky plan” and a “form of escapism and make-believe” from an isolated youth.<\/p>\n

He said “talking this horrible big game” with others was his client’s way of ingratiating himself with others.<\/p>\n

How a 20yo living with his parents allegedly plotted a terror attack<\/a><\/p>\n

History was made in WA when police charged a person for the first time with preparing a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n

While refusing bail, Magistrate Coleman said Mr Michaels’s diary was locked in a drawer at his home and that its entries were “disturbing” and not simply “ramblings”.<\/p>\n

She said Mr Michaels had researched mosques, proposed joining the Army Reserve and had made efforts to gain employment to get ingredients for explosives.<\/p>\n

The magistrate noted he may face risks in prison, and had reported a threat to his safety, but would remain in the special handling unit.<\/p>\n

Mr Michaels was remanded to appear in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on May 13.<\/p>\n

He has been charged with doing an act in preparation for a terrorist act, using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offence, and possession of a prohibited weapon.<\/p>\n

He has also been charged with failing to store a firearm in compliant storage and possessing ammunition without authorisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man charged with terrorism offences in Western Australia was allegedly preparing for what he called a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,255288,255289,283838,250273,255286,44,14666,86,283839,14665,45],"class_list":{"0":"post-578779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bindoon","11":"tag-bindoon-man-planning-for-terror-attack","12":"tag-christian-porter","13":"tag-diary","14":"tag-jayson-joseph-michaels","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-perth-courts","17":"tag-perth-news","18":"tag-terrorism-offences","19":"tag-wa-courts","20":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578779","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=578779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}