Counter-terrorism police in Sydney have arrested two men, charging one with possession of documents designed to facilitate a terrorist attack.
The other suspect was charged with breaching a control order.
The arrests were related to a series of counter-terrorism raids in September, officials said.
They come after Australia's prime minister said there had been heightened "terror chatter" since a cafe siege in Sydney last week.
That saw gunman Man Haron Monis, a self-styled cleric originally from Iran, take 17 people hostage in a cafe in the city centre. A 16-hour siege followed, during which two hostages and Haron Monis were killed.
On Wednesday, Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said the man arrested on the terrorism charge, 20-year-old Sulayman Khalid, had documents that mentioned potential government targets.
"I am confident that we've disrupted the activity that they were planning," he said.
But he added: "There is nothing that indicates at all that [there were] any specific targets or time frame in relation to this particular activity at all.
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