Australians take to Twitter to react to ‘high’ terror threat level

THE threat of terror to the nation has been raised but that hasn’t dampened Australians “no worries” attitude - as evident on Twitter.

YOU’VE got to love Australians.

The national terror threat has been raised but that hasn’t dampened the “no worries” attitude Australians are famous for.

TERROR THREAT: Australia, we’re on ‘high’ alert

Prime Minister Tony Abbott today announced the Australian terror threat has been raised from medium to high, meaning an attack is “likely” on home soil.

We all should be panicking, right?

Not so, if the immediate reaction on social media is anything to go by. See below

Raising paranoia level from medium to high .. good job #ThingsToGiveAbbottCreditFor #TonyAbbott #auspol

— Dame Christel Long (@christel_long) September 12, 2014

Maybe @TonyAbbottMHR raised the terror threat because he was scared of all the uni students protesting against him this morning #asio

— Tim Dean (@Tim_Dean10) September 12, 2014

Terror alert in Australia now officially "HIGH". Quick, check under your bed pic.twitter.com/L3eR9KK5qe

— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) September 12, 2014

What do we put @TonyAbbottMHR fear mongering ploy down to? Support his asinine military backing of US or waning popularity in polls #auspol

— Ahmed Kheir (@AhmedKheir6) September 12, 2014

Tony Abbott has taken John Howard's "be alert, not alarmed" catchphrase, then taken the words "alert, not" out of it @theprojecttv

— Sir PositoryofWisdom (@tweetledumbledo) September 12, 2014

Residents of Perth just need to look out the window to understand why the terror alert has been raised. pic.twitter.com/OEwq24Uqhp

— Titus O'Reily (@TitusOReily) September 12, 2014

australia raised their terror alert level to high. the cooler must be low on beer or something

— jon hendren (@fart) September 12, 2014

Australia raises terror alert level to high..but there is no real threat? I'm callin BS. You don't just raise it because people could attack

— Jason Hall (@BullsZoneJason) September 12, 2014