WEBVTT - What the Bondi attack means for New Zealand

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<v Speaker 1>Fyota. I'm Chelsea Daniels and this is a bonus episode

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<v Speaker 1>of The Front Page, a daily podcast presented by the

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<v Speaker 1>New Zealand Herald. A dark day in Australia as two

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<v Speaker 1>gunmen open fire at a Bondai Beach Jewish event marking

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<v Speaker 1>the first day of Hunaker. Sixteen people are dead, including

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<v Speaker 1>one of the assailants. Police have confirmed there were two

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<v Speaker 1>offenders and they aren't looking for anyone else. One of them,

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<v Speaker 1>a fifty year old man, is dead and a second,

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<v Speaker 1>a twenty four year old man, is in a critical

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<v Speaker 1>but stable condition. They were father and son. There were

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<v Speaker 1>dozens of people in New South Wales hospitals overnight from

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<v Speaker 1>the ages of ten to eighty seven. New South Wales

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<v Speaker 1>Premier Chris Mens has said anti Semitism is toxic. It

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<v Speaker 1>is cancerous and leads to devastating implications. Prime Minister Anthony

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<v Speaker 1>Arberesi said we as a nation are stronger than the

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<v Speaker 1>cowards who did this. Today on the Front Page, University

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<v Speaker 1>of Waikato International law professor Al Gillespie is with us

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<v Speaker 1>to discuss this tragic attack and what it might mean

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<v Speaker 1>for New Zealand. Our major question here will be whether

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<v Speaker 1>the terrorists were already known by authorities. That's not unusual.

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<v Speaker 1>Apparently one was known to police, but under what circumstances

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<v Speaker 1>we don't really know yet. We do have that kind

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<v Speaker 1>of thing here. Don't we a terror watch.

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<v Speaker 2>List, but we do, and both countries have quite good

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<v Speaker 2>security services. But we can expect that there will be

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<v Speaker 2>a review almost immediately about what was known and what

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<v Speaker 2>was missed. Inevitably, there's always the questions about whether they

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<v Speaker 2>should have been able to go deeper and had a

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<v Speaker 2>greater profile of the people involved in this attackchallenges that

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<v Speaker 2>often toroists are largely invisible, but they always leave fingerprints.

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<v Speaker 2>To question how deep you're willing to dig to find

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<v Speaker 2>those fingerprints before the attank.

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<v Speaker 1>And I know that there will also be questions about

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<v Speaker 1>what types of firearms they used and where they got them.

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<v Speaker 1>Australia banned semi automatics in the nineties, of course, after

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<v Speaker 1>the country's worst mass shooting at Port Arthur. The fifty

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<v Speaker 1>year old man was apparently licensed, he had been for

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<v Speaker 1>at least ten years, and had six firearms in his possession.

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<v Speaker 1>They reckon. They've found all six at the scene, but

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<v Speaker 1>determining kind of what firearms they were will be a

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<v Speaker 1>major part of this investigation.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, terroists, when they use firearms tend to go for

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<v Speaker 2>particular types, and the way it normally works is that

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<v Speaker 2>there will be a prohibition on the type of firearm

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<v Speaker 2>that was used in the at tank. The challenge for

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<v Speaker 2>Australia is that they have some of the strongest firearms

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<v Speaker 2>laws in the world. This shows you that even with

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<v Speaker 2>very strong laws, people can still get through the gaps.

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<v Speaker 2>I imagine they will be focusing not just on the

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<v Speaker 2>type of platform that was utilized, but also on the

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<v Speaker 2>licensing procedure of the alleged terrorist, because there will be

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<v Speaker 2>a series of interviews and intelligence gathering and they will

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<v Speaker 2>now be looking at whether that was adequate, whether any

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<v Speaker 2>mistakes were made. Importantly, there's often a connection with firearms

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<v Speaker 2>in Australia and whether they're a member of a club,

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<v Speaker 2>whether they've been to a range, whether there were warning

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<v Speaker 2>signs of something that should have just put up a

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<v Speaker 2>red flag, and all of that will be looked at

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<v Speaker 2>quite closely now.

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<v Speaker 1>And I can imagine New Zealand authorities will be looking

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<v Speaker 1>quite closely as well what Australia discovers also well, given

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<v Speaker 1>that they are now rewriting our gun laws here.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, well that's right, and obviously without terror attack and

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<v Speaker 2>christ Church there were mistakes over the licensing and there

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<v Speaker 2>was a gap through which the terrorists progressed to get

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<v Speaker 2>a firearms platform that was highly lethal. And so the

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<v Speaker 2>way it works is that you always wait for an

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<v Speaker 2>attack and then you revise your laws and policy afterwards.

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<v Speaker 2>But for Australia, which already has some of the best

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<v Speaker 2>laws in the world, it will be a hard point

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<v Speaker 2>to be too, because Australia has taken pride in its

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<v Speaker 2>very good record of very few terror attacks in recent

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<v Speaker 2>years or mass shootings because of its arms laws, but

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<v Speaker 2>now that will become questionable.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, anti Semitism has grown rampant in Australia over recent years.

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<v Speaker 1>We've actually spoken about it on this podcast before. What

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<v Speaker 1>do you make of this?

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<v Speaker 2>I think it Anti Semitism is a plague. It's a

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<v Speaker 2>terrible thing. But it should have been greater security at

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<v Speaker 2>this event. It was foreseeable that there was a place

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<v Speaker 2>where there was a high density of a particular population.

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<v Speaker 2>The date was foreseeable, like it was an event, and

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<v Speaker 2>often terrorists will be focused on holidays or points of

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<v Speaker 2>national significance for the community that they target, and so

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<v Speaker 2>I think that the anti Semitism with the hatred has

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<v Speaker 2>all come together at one particular point, and it should

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<v Speaker 2>have been more foreseeable than it has been. I think

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<v Speaker 2>the rise of anti Semitism is a global problem. It's

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<v Speaker 2>not just in Australia, it's also in New Zealand, and

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<v Speaker 2>it's also in Europe as well.

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<v Speaker 1>And of course Benjamin Natanya who has come out pretty

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<v Speaker 1>quickly and said that Australia quote poured oil on the

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<v Speaker 1>flames of anti Semitism through its silence on anti Jewish sentiment.

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<v Speaker 1>That's not exactly the case, though, was it.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's unfair. I think in part this is

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<v Speaker 2>a relationship to the wider debate about the war and

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<v Speaker 2>Gaza and the recognition of Palestine. And there has been

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<v Speaker 2>assertions made that if you were not fully behind what

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<v Speaker 2>mister Nettni who was trying to do, you were further

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<v Speaker 2>in anti Semitism. But the to it are very distinct,

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<v Speaker 2>and people may still be concerned about the position of Israel,

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<v Speaker 2>but that doesn't necessarily make them anti Semitic. But there

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<v Speaker 2>are definitely a lot of anti Semitic feelings in the

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<v Speaker 2>terrorist community which have now been acted upon, and it

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<v Speaker 2>means that we've all got to double down with our

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<v Speaker 2>protection of all of these communities because they are vulnerable.

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<v Speaker 2>And from here you have a risk which is twofold.

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<v Speaker 2>One you have a risk of a copycat or two

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<v Speaker 2>you have a risk of a reprisal against opposing communities.

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<v Speaker 2>And so there's always a period attention after an attack

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<v Speaker 2>where you have to have extra vigilance and you will

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<v Speaker 2>see it on the streets of Australia and potentially in

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<v Speaker 2>New Zealand as well, because terrorists are often inspired by

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<v Speaker 2>the acts of others.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there has been a report of an ISIS flag

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<v Speaker 1>being draped over the offender's car. We haven't got that

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<v Speaker 1>confirmed yet, but what we do know about those terror

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<v Speaker 1>groups is that they just feed off of this discontent,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it might be. So we don't really need to

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<v Speaker 1>make a link between ISIS and anti Semitism, do we.

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<v Speaker 2>You will often find when there is a terror attack

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<v Speaker 2>more than one terror group will actually try to claim

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<v Speaker 2>it for their own publicity purposes. But for some groups

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<v Speaker 2>they don't look for an active affiliation, but they do

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<v Speaker 2>look to encourage people to do acts individually. And try

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<v Speaker 2>to give them enthusiasm for that. What you may see

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<v Speaker 2>here at some point is a manifesto may become apparent

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<v Speaker 2>of why they did the acts in question, and often

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<v Speaker 2>the manifesto will give you the clear link that you

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<v Speaker 2>need for it to be terrorism. Although I think it's

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<v Speaker 2>a fairly safe bet that this is an active terrorism

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<v Speaker 2>that will tarketed a particular population, but the manifesto will

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<v Speaker 2>often flesh that out.

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<v Speaker 1>Do you think New Zealand should be on high alert

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<v Speaker 1>and perhaps change our alert level alongside Australia's.

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<v Speaker 2>I think we should be extra vigilant around the time

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<v Speaker 2>of the year that we're in and have an increased

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<v Speaker 2>awareness of the risk to both the Jewish community and

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<v Speaker 2>the Muslim community as well, because people tend to follow

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<v Speaker 2>these instances and they can see the notoriety that the

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<v Speaker 2>Kilns can do. So partly, it's not just about an awareness,

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<v Speaker 2>it's also about an awareness on the part of the

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<v Speaker 2>media not to glamorize or show the terror that these

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<v Speaker 2>acts can do because it can incentivize copycat performances.

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<v Speaker 1>Will New Zealand's sis be stepping up and monitoring in

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<v Speaker 1>light of what happened yesterday? I can imagine teams will

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<v Speaker 1>be working throughout the night to just see what kind

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<v Speaker 1>of reaction online this has gotten.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think it would be reactions online. And often

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<v Speaker 2>these terror communities are international as well, and even tho

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<v Speaker 2>they may not have actual formal linkages, they'll all be

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<v Speaker 2>on the darker side of the Internet communicating and so

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<v Speaker 2>I imagine that the New Zealand SIS and the police

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<v Speaker 2>and their associated security agencies will all be taking extra

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<v Speaker 2>effort over the coming weeks.

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<v Speaker 1>And amongst those horrors, though, we saw images of a

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<v Speaker 1>hero Ahmed al Ahmed, a forty three year old root

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<v Speaker 1>shop owner. He confronted one of the attackers and wrestled

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<v Speaker 1>a gun from him. Apparently he has been shot a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of times, but it is in a stable condition.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you think that that means for the wider

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<v Speaker 1>community seeing those images as opposed to the ones of devastation.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that's a remarkable act of heroism and I

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<v Speaker 2>think he will become the Australian of the year and

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<v Speaker 2>it's encouraging to see that the response against terrorism comes

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<v Speaker 2>from Australian citizens of all flavors, and that you can't

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<v Speaker 2>just paint a community as good or bad because of

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<v Speaker 2>the membership of that group.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks so much for joining us OL.

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<v Speaker 2>You're welcome, Chelsea.

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<v Speaker 1>That's it for this bonus episode of the Front Page.

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<v Speaker 1>For more on this story, you can visit enzadherld dot

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