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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with

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Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. A fired up New South Wales

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Speaker 1: Premier Chris Mins has defended the state's police officers against

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Speaker 1: suggestions they did not act fast enough to stop the

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Speaker 1: Bondai Beach massacre. At a tense press conference in Sydney,

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Speaker 1: the Premier was joined by Prime Minister Anthony Alberanezi, AFP

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Speaker 1: Commissioner Chrissy Barrett and New South Wales Police Boss Malanion.

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Speaker 1: After a series of questions focusing on how many cops

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Speaker 1: were protecting worshipers at a huneker event at Bondi Beach

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Speaker 1: before two gunmen began shooting men, women and children, the

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Speaker 1: Premier said, in hindsight, more officers could have been deployed,

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Speaker 1: but he spoke passionately about the response from officers who

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Speaker 1: rushed to the scene.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I feel it's incredibly important to me, as the

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Speaker 2: Premier of New Southwest to respond to some of these questions.

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Speaker 2: Wales police acted with bravery and integrity. They didn't take

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Speaker 2: a backward step. They engaged the gunmen on the footbridge

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Speaker 2: with handguns. The offenders had long range rifles and New

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Speaker 2: South Wales police officers were responsible for killing one of

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Speaker 2: them and shooting the other one and as a result,

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Speaker 2: saving many many people's lives. Now there are two officers

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Speaker 2: in critical care in New South Wales hospitals at the moment.

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Speaker 2: They weren't shot in the back as they were running away,

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Speaker 2: they were shot in the front. I'm sorry to be

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Speaker 2: graphic about it, but if there's any suggestion that New

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Speaker 2: South Wales Police didn't live up to their responsibilities to

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Speaker 2: the people of this state, it should be rejected because

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Speaker 2: it's not consistent with the facts. New South Wales police officers,

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Speaker 2: some of whom had been in the job for a

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Speaker 2: number of months, put their lives on the line to

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Speaker 2: save people in this state and I think this rushed

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Speaker 2: to conclusions before all the facts are known, in my view,

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Speaker 2: is disrespectful to their actions.

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Speaker 1: On Sunday, twenty four year old Bondai terror suspect Navid

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Speaker 1: Akram was on Tuesday revealed as a follower of the

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Speaker 1: radical Muslim cleric Wissam Hadad. Akram was allegedly connected to

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Speaker 1: Islamic State through the Almadina Dhawa Center in Western Sydney,

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Speaker 1: where had Ad preachers. Akram who has worked as a

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Speaker 1: bricklayer and reportedly has been out of work for a

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Speaker 1: couple of months before the Bondi shooting, was just seventeen

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Speaker 1: years old when he was filmed handing out pamphlets for

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Speaker 1: Hardad's ministry. This is the voice of Navid Akram.

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Speaker 3: My bluble cred for your brother, repread to Abi Alat and.

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Speaker 2: The first color.

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Speaker 1: Akram's links to Islamic State adherents put him on Asio's

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Speaker 1: radar in twenty nineteen when the videos were filmed. Akram

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Speaker 1: was shot by police after he and his father, fifty

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Speaker 1: year old Sajid Akram, allegedly opened fire on a Jewish

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Speaker 1: high on a celebration at Bondeai Beach on Sunday. Sajid

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Speaker 1: was killed by police at the scene and his son

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Speaker 1: Navide is under police guard in hospital. Fifteen people, including

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Speaker 1: a ten year old girl, a Holocaust survivor, and two

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Speaker 1: rabbis were killed in the attack, designated a terrorist act

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Speaker 1: by New Southwell's Police Commissioner Mallanyon revealed authorities are investigating

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Speaker 1: a trip made by the father and son to the

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Speaker 1: Philippines last month, the.

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Speaker 2: Reasons why they went to the Philippines and the purpose

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Speaker 2: of that and where they went when they were there

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Speaker 2: is under investigation of the moment.

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Speaker 1: Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi followed through on his promise to

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Speaker 1: raise gun reforms in a specially convened National Cabinet meeting

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Speaker 1: on Monday, but a six month old plan to combat

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Speaker 1: rising anti semitism wasn't on the agenda, The Australian revealed

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Speaker 1: on Tuesday. State and territory leaders had to push the

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Speaker 1: PM on what can be done to quell the hate.

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Speaker 1: A draft document seen by The Australian contained just one

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Speaker 1: paragraph about the plan to a rat ded antisemitism. The

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Speaker 1: Australians Joanni Bishan asked Albanesi about that draft, but a.

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Speaker 3: Draft document that was presented to state premiers containment one

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Speaker 3: paragraph about the issue of anti semitism, and this was

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Speaker 3: later caged out a second paragraph that included existing policies

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Speaker 3: that you're already working on. Why are you not announcing

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Speaker 3: sweet of antisemitism measures right now instead of talking about

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Speaker 3: gun control. That's not true.

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Speaker 1: The report is not accurate, Albanzi said. The government's already

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Speaker 1: outlawing Nazi symbols and doxing. We have taken the report

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Speaker 1: from the Anti Semitism on board and what we are

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Speaker 1: doing is busy implementing it, and we talked about that yesterday.

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Speaker 1: A clearer sense is emerging of what gun law reform

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Speaker 1: might look like, with Chris Minn saying he wants to

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Speaker 1: recall the Southwell's Parliament before Christmas to pass laws giving

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Speaker 1: police the power to use criminal intelligence, not just a

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Speaker 1: criminal record, when determining whether a gun license could be

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Speaker 1: issued or renewed.

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Speaker 2: If we can craft a law that the police commissioner

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Speaker 2: can say, I've got concerns about this person. I don't

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Speaker 2: want them having access to a gun, notwithstanding the fact

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Speaker 2: that they don't have a criminal record. That's the kind

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Speaker 2: of legislation that we want to see in.

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Speaker 1: Numerous questions remain about the alleged actions of Navid and

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Speaker 1: Sajid Akram. New video emerged on Tuesday of a police

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Speaker 1: detective shooting Sajid Akram dead, and of two members of

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Speaker 1: the public who tackled the men as they got out

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Speaker 1: of their car on Bondais Campbell Parade before beginning the massacre.

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Speaker 1: The bodies of those civilians were later seen on drone

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Speaker 1: footage lying motionless next to the men's car. They haven't

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Speaker 1: been identified. That car was allegedly packed with explosives and

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Speaker 1: had what police say was a homemade ISIS flag draped

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Speaker 1: over the windscreen. You can check out all those angles

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