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Speaker 1: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi has announced tougher gun laws

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Speaker 1: following the Bondi terror attack. Charles Croucher is Channel nine's

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Speaker 1: chief political leader, sand is with us Morning Charles Morning. Ever, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what are we talking about here? Limiting the number of guns,

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Speaker 1: checking gun owners more regularly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the two headline ones, particularly following one of

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Speaker 2: the attackers that appears to have not only just been

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Speaker 2: a license gun owner, but owned six licensed guns. Now,

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Speaker 2: the argument from the Prime Minister and the state premiers

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Speaker 2: is that's just too many without justifiable reasons. So that

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Speaker 2: will be part of the restrictions, cutting down on the

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Speaker 2: number of guns someone can known. There's also be more

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Speaker 2: regular checks on those with licenses. And one other sort

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Speaker 2: of element God added towards the end of the discussions

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Speaker 2: in National Capet yesterday, was you have to be an

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Speaker 2: Australian citizen rather than just resident to become an Australian

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Speaker 2: gun owner.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, what are the questions that are likely to

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Speaker 1: be asked about the competence of the intelligence agencies here?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's a couple of questions. Firstly, what was missed,

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Speaker 2: If anything was missed Mike Burgess, our AZO, that is,

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Speaker 2: our secret intelligence organization boss has been warning about the

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Speaker 2: potential for anti Semitic attacks for a while now our

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Speaker 2: terror threat level. Was it probable? But the question is

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Speaker 2: how do you were their red flags? Were there anything

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Speaker 2: of interest among these two men? One of them had

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Speaker 2: been investigated for some peripheral peripheral links to Islamic State,

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Speaker 2: but that's six or seven years ago. So did they

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Speaker 2: drop off the radar? Were the checks not frequent enough?

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Speaker 2: And then clearly there was planning that went into this.

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Speaker 2: Is it something that was just known by the two men,

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Speaker 2: what to the rest of their family know and their associates, colleagues, etc.

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Speaker 2: And then obviously the big challenge how to prevent something

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Speaker 2: like this happening again? I mean New Zealand is all

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Speaker 2: tool where sadly of the confusion that happens in the

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Speaker 2: event like this, and the not not blame game, but

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Speaker 2: just the questions that are left unanswered of how well

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Speaker 2: in countries like ours people can be driven to such

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Speaker 2: hate and such horrible actions.

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Speaker 1: How much trouble is Anthony Albinizi and his government and

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Speaker 1: for sitting on that anti semitism and envoys report for

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Speaker 1: about six months and doing nothing.

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Speaker 2: It's a flashpoint. I mean there was a couple of

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Speaker 2: changes made. I went through a Jillian Siegel's report again

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Speaker 2: yesterday to see if there were anything in there. The

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Speaker 2: question that can't be answered by particularly those really critical

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Speaker 2: of the Prime Minister at the moment, is what actual

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Speaker 2: change could have been made that could have prevented this.

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Speaker 2: There is a discussion of greater infrastructure and greater protection

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Speaker 2: around Jewish institutions, given this Huneker event was happening in

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Speaker 2: an unusual place in a park. Effectively, this is a celebration.

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Speaker 2: Could security have been better, clearly it could have, but

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Speaker 2: even that wasn't a specifically spelled out in the envoys reports, Sook.

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Speaker 2: There will be big questions. I mean that the number

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Speaker 2: one job of the governments to keep their citizens safe

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Speaker 2: and that is failed this time around. Whether there is

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Speaker 2: a long lasting impact on the Prime Minister not, But

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Speaker 2: it will be largely defined by what the actions are

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Speaker 2: taken in the coming days and weeks. And I think

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Speaker 2: beyond all the tragedy, the Prime Minister was fully aware

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Speaker 2: of the yesterday when he called that many national cad

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Speaker 2: in terms of a response in gun laws for the

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Speaker 2: gold standard demonstrating was John Howard response to Port Arthur

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Speaker 2: a generation ago, where the semi automatic rifles were banned.

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Speaker 2: So I think that's what everyone's expecting. Something similar this

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Speaker 2: time around, where there is the scope to do something

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Speaker 2: as bold. It's probably not, but some action, some effort

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Speaker 2: to prevent this from happening again, is necessary.

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Speaker 1: Charles is good to talk to you. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Look after yourself. That's Charles Croucher, nine News Chief Political Editor.

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