As Australians express their solidarity with the French, the potential home-soil threat has been brought to the forefront.
Currently, the Australian security alert is high - meaning a terrorist attack is likely.
But New South Wales Police Acting Commissioner Nick Kaldas has assured Australians that this does not mean they should be sitting at home and worrying.
"I have to stress, we have not seen any evidence or information that there is a direct threat to Sydney that exists because of France, or anything that has come out of Paris," Acting Commissioner Kaldas said.
"This is an ever-evolving environment. We have to be agile, we have to be flexible and if the ground shifts, we&apos;ve also got to change our views and look at what came out of it."
He assured A Current Affair host Tracy Grimshaw that emergency response agencies have been engaged in exercises that tested their response to terror attacks.
"We have an exercise regime, a very robust exercise regime, which is implemented nationally - so we do exercise our capabilities," Acting Commissioner Kaldas said.
"We have scenarios that are similar, perhaps, to what happened in Paris. I&apos;m confident the agencies that are involved, state and federal, are ready, are informed and have exercised extensively in these sort of scenarios."
The Acting Commissioner also warned against living in fear, saying we should instead embrace the harmonious paradise which Australia strives to be.
"People need to say: &apos;Whatever has happened overseas will not divide us. We will stand together, we will defeat the terrorists and we will get on with our lives. We won&apos;t change our plans, we won&apos;t cancel that trip, we won&apos;t not go to that event, we won&apos;t sit at home and worry.&apos; If we do that, the bad guys win."
Islamic community leader Dr Jamal Rifi has urged Australians not to allow the attacks in France to change their views on accepting refugees from Syria.
"The cohort that we are getting into Australia is totally different than the cohort who migrated or fled to Europe," Dr Rifi said.
"Every person who is coming here is actually security-checked,"
He says that the refugees coming to Australia will show appreciation and respect for the "compassionate and merciful act" shown by the Australian people.
"These are a very grateful 12,000," Dr Rifi said.
"They will take the security and safety of Australia as their priority."