Interim report contains 14 recommendations, after inquiry examined agencies’ actions before the attack in which 15 people were killed
The federal government’s counter-terrorism coordinator should be a full-time position, and the prime minister and national security ministers need training in responding to terrorist incidents, an interim royal commission report has found.
The interim report of the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion has handed down 14 recommendations – five of which remain secret – to the government on Thursday morning.
The commission was established in the wake of the December’s Bondi massacre, in which two alleged Islamic State-inspired gunmen shot and killed 15 people and injured 40 others as they attended a beachside Hanukah event for the Jewish community.
But the report found there was no gap in current laws that stopped the potential for the terrorist attack from being known in advance, or that impeded authorities’ response.
