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The article reports on the pyroterrorism in Australia. Pyroterrorism is an act used by non-state organizations of large-scale fires to attack, intimidate or coerce a government, the civilians or any segment for advance political, social or religious objectives. It is stated that the pyroterrorist attack would not only be extremely destructive in terms of human life, physical destruction and economic costs. It significantly destabilize the political and social systems of the target society.

The article explores the emergence of the militant intelligentsia in the 1960s in Australia. The author explains that the radical intelligentsia in the country was established as a response to the Vietnam War. When the country's government announced its involvement in the Vietnam War, an effective adversary culture led by the intelligentsia slowly came into surface. Moreover, this group successfully mobilizes and legitimizes both opposition to the war and active support for the communist cause.

The article discusses the combination of militant Islamist ideology and the radical ideology of political activist called the New Left on 1960s. The merged of these two ideologies is a powerful strategy for the terrorist. The basic assumption of existential terrorism is that the civil society is now subsumed by the state and that the historic distinction between these realms has broke down.