Australian police will try to interview an alleged Islamic militant thought to have trained with Jemaah Islamiah operatives at a camp west of Sydney, once he is released from a Malaysian jail, a report said today.

The Australian newspaper said police had been unable to interview Asman Hashim since he was detained without trial under Malaysia's Internal Security Act when he returned to Kuala Lumpur in 2002.

After renouncing the teachings of Southeast Asia's militant Muslim network, Jemaah Islamiah, the Malaysian was due for release on April 20, it said.

But it is not known whether he has it fact been freed or had his period of detention extended.

Hashim spent a year in Sydney in before returning to Malaysia in 2002. Police suspect that during his time here he received paramilitary training with Jemaah Islamiah members in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.

The newspaper said that when he left Australia, police found traces of bomb-making residue on luggage he left behind but they had been unable to find any camps.

The Australian said Hashim had previously trained with rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the southern Philippines.

The al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah staged the 2002 bombings of a Bali nightclub strip which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, as well as a string of other attacks.

Still a target

Attorney-General Philip Ruddock on Tuesday warned Australians against becoming complacent about terror attacks on home soil, telling a conference in Canberra that intelligence revealed that Australia remains a target.

"Yes, there are activities that agencies are concerned about here," he said on ABC radio earlier.

"There are activities that are of concern to us... people who have come here with the intention of occasioning harm and our agencies have ongoing roles in relation to those matters."