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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: And we joined by our Prime Minister, Anthony Albanezi. Good morning,

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister, and good.

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Speaker 1: To be with you. But it's been a tough few

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Speaker 1: days in Sydney.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely it has What are you feeling.

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Speaker 1: Oh, look at this incident is extremely concerning. I do

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Speaker 1: urge people in the community to remain calm and to

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Speaker 1: listen very carefully to police and provide them support. There

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Speaker 1: is no place for violence in our community. There's no

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Speaker 1: place for violent extremism. We're a peace loving nation. This

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Speaker 1: is a time to unite, not to divide as a community,

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Speaker 1: but also as a country. And I certainly understand that

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Speaker 1: is stress and concerns which are there, particularly after the

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Speaker 1: tragic event at Bondai, but it is completely not acceptable

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Speaker 1: to impede and injure police doing their duty, or to

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Speaker 1: damage police vehicles in the way that occurred last night.

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Speaker 1: Nisawa's police have declared a terror incident overnight. We have

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Speaker 1: stood up Strikeforce Patrina, which is a joint counter terrorism investigation.

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Speaker 1: I was briefed this morning by the AFP and by

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Speaker 1: our security agencies. Will have a meeting at the National

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Speaker 1: Security Committee this morning as well. Here in Canberra. This

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Speaker 1: is a very distressing incident. With the young man who

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Speaker 1: was responsible for this incident is in custody, so there

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Speaker 1: isn't further further danger there, but it is of course

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Speaker 1: of real concern, and I applaud the leadership, the police

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Speaker 1: and our emergency services once again rush into the scene

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Speaker 1: to provide that support. And I commend as well Chris Men's,

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Speaker 1: the Premier who called a meeting of faith leaders last

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Speaker 1: night in order to calm the situation and ensure that

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Speaker 1: the community was working right across the board.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's all about calm heads, isn't it. And right

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Speaker 3: now that's what you and Chris Men's are doing. And

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Speaker 3: with what's happened in the church is absolutely dreadful. But

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Speaker 3: there just seems to be so many things that are

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Speaker 2: It was interesting that for the horrendous event at Bondo

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Speaker 2: Junction that one of the first thoughts was terrorism and

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Speaker 2: they said no, there was no ideology, meaning religious ideology,

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Speaker 2: And yet it seems to me there's this whole swathe

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Speaker 2: now of violence. Again. What's women? Women were the ones

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Speaker 2: being targeted. Are we doing enough Prime Minister to protect women?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Look, where we need to do more or not just

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Speaker 1: women should be safe going about their shopping on a

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Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon, they also should, of course be safe in

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Speaker 1: their home. And we've seen too many incidents of domestic

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Speaker 1: violence as well already this year. It is a tragic

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Speaker 1: statistic that tells the story well beyond just numbers, that

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Speaker 1: a woman loses their life to someone that they know

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Speaker 1: on average once a week in Australia. We need to

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Speaker 1: do more on the scourge of domestic violence. We need

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Speaker 1: to do more about respecting women right across the board.

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Speaker 3: But do you think Prime Minister, do you think though,

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Speaker 3: because a lot and we hear this a lot, do

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Speaker 3: you think that there's a point where we say, right, okay,

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Speaker 3: we've all said that, But there's countless examples of where

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Speaker 3: people have been called for domestic violencing and the police can't,

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Speaker 3: their hands are tied by the courts, or otherwise the

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Speaker 3: system appears to be broken.

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Speaker 1: Look, we need to do whatever we can to unshackle

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Speaker 1: the system where there are impediments to justice and where

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Speaker 1: there are any impediments to ensuring the safety of women

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Speaker 1: in our society. We know that domestic violence has an

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Speaker 1: impact directly primarily on women, but also on children who

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Speaker 1: witness these events or sometimes can be subject to violent

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Speaker 1: activity themselves. You know, it's hard to comprehend why this

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Speaker 1: occurs overwhelmingly as a society where one that we can

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Speaker 1: be just so proud of the society that we've created

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Speaker 1: here in Australia, one where we live in in peace

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Speaker 1: and harmony, one where our diversity is a strength, one

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Speaker 1: where we respect each other and that's a way of

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Speaker 1: us advancing and we need to cherish that at each

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Speaker 1: and every opportunity. But we always need to need to

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Speaker 1: do more. On Saturday was just beyond beyond belief.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure there'll be lots of recommendations of how

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Speaker 2: we can how we can be better in the way

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Speaker 2: that we sought out women being at risk like this

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Speaker 2: and all Australians we implore the government here to please

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Speaker 2: try and keep women or keep all of us, but

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Speaker 2: particularly women seem to be most vulnerable at the minute.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we certainly will be undertaking of course, as

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Speaker 1: you would expect, a full examination of what occurred on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: The investigation, of course is ongoing. A tragic loss of

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Speaker 1: life of six people, of five women and then a

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Speaker 1: refugee working as a security guard at the shopping center.

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Speaker 1: Also dreadfuls and the other factor. Of course, there's still

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Speaker 1: people in hospital as a result of that attack, and

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Speaker 1: our heart goes out to them and we wish them well.

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Speaker 1: But for the thousands of people who witnessed this terrifying

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Speaker 1: incident as well, their lives will never be the same

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Speaker 1: and we need to make sure that they get the

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Speaker 1: mental health support that they need at this time.

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Speaker 3: And I was demonstrated there's more good in the community

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Speaker 3: than bad. Prime Minister, thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 3: You'll have to come and check out the new digs.

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Speaker 3: Don't come and to see Kyle and Jackie. You next time,

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Speaker 3: come and see us the.

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Speaker 1: New Digs. I look forward to it.

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Speaker 2: Nice to talk to you, Prime Minister. Thank you.