Premier Mark McGowan will be seeking more information from Australia’s top security agency about a young man working at a major Perth hotel who is on the same “watchlist” as the Bourke Street terrorist.

Mr McGowan said he was not aware of the individual until reading The Sunday Times today but wanted to know more information.

“We receive regular briefings from ASIO and this will be top of the agenda at the next meeting,” he said.

“Obviously, in light of what occurred in Melbourne and some of those other events around Australia, these things are something that governments have to be very concerned about and we have to watch these individuals and this sort of trend very closely.

“Now I’m confident that ASIO is monitoring these people as best as they can and that the national security agencies are dealing with this issue as best they can.

“We receive regular briefings at COAG about these matters and clearly it’s a matter of concern, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne. But I would expect that ASIO is monitoring these individuals in WA as well.”

Camera Icon A car on fire in Bourke Street last week. Credit: News Corp Australia/Stuart Gaut

Mr McGowan said he would leave it to ASIO to determine if the hotel needed to be advised.

It comes after a special News Corp investigation, published in The Sunday Times today, detailed how a 24-year-old’s passport was cancelled two years ago when he was stopped at Perth Airport because he was regarded as an “adverse security threat”.

A search of the young man’s phone and computer found 16,000 “abhorrent” images - pictures and videos of grotesque dismemberments and horrific cruelty by Islamic State, the story read.

The man told The Sunday Times “I’m not a risk to anyone. I was never that person ASIO said I was. I never planned to fight for the Islamic State.”