The federal government has warned that Australian children are at risk of being recruited into terrorist groups at the school playground.  Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil on Thursday said ASIO recently informed her about an incident where a group of teenagers attempted to radicalise children, including those as young as 13, in the school playground. 
Speaking to the Australia-New Zealand Counter-terrorism committee youth summit on Thursday, she noted that the teenagers’ tactic is to target students who had been bullied and give them compliments to gain trust, before gradually showing them more graphic and violent Islamic State propaganda videos until such content are normalised. …