RAAF prepare for combat
Prime Minister Tony Abbott will update Parliament today on Australia's plans to tackle the terror threat at home and abroad.
It comes as RAAF personnel and planes travel to Dubai to prepare for combat against Islamic State militants.
There has been a huge rush to but no firm timeline on when they will see action, or what role they will play.
Mr Abbott will meet US President Barack Obama later this week.
The high-level security talks will focus on locking down Islamic State militants and to stem the flow of fighters travelling from countries like Australia and the United States.
Seven Network Foreign Affairs Editor Keith Suter told Sunrise that Prime Minister Abbott will address the media on Monday.
"He's got to reassure the community that we're not going back to an Iraq-type war," Suter said.
"[And] that we're doing something legal, but to also make sure that it's not an open-ended commitment that will see us there for five years."
Meanwhile, in his first major interview since being prime minister, John Howard said Australians shouldn't 'assume we won’t have a terrorist incident here.'
"We should be quite unapologetic in demanding … an acceptance that people [who] in anyway support terrorism are behaving in a way that is inconsistent in the values and wealth of this country," Mr Howard told Seven's Sunday Night.
"I think some people had spent too much time in small communities closed communities where that kind of thing can occur," he said.
"I was surprised at the complacency in President Obama’s speech a few months ago at the Westpoint graduation ceremony where he talked about their strength in, I thought, rather too relaxed a tone of voice."
