Australia’s domestic intelligence chief has said he believes that a terrorist attack on Australian soil is likely within the next year. The comments came during a parliamentary inquiry, where the Australian Federal Police chief called the internet a “salad bar of hate” responsible for amplifying extremist messaging. Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), said Sunni-based violent extremism remained the biggest concern for agencies based on caseload. But there was also a marked increase in nationalist or supremacist-related violence. “There is likely to be a terrorist attack in the next 12 months,” Burgess told the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security during an inquiry into extremist movements and radicalism in Australia. “It can come from either ideology and therefore, for me doesn’t really matter because they’re both capable of conducting acts of violence, and that’s where we focus,” he added. The director-general said Sunni-based violence, or …