00:00 After consideration of all the material, I declared that it was a terrorist incident.
00:07 Strike Force Katrina has been established to investigate that side of the events last night.
00:15 We believe there are elements that are satisfied in terms of religious motivated extremism
00:24 and of course the intimidation of the public through that person's acts by attending that church whilst it was being live streamed.
00:33 We will allege that there is a degree of premeditation on the basis that this person has travelled to that location
00:42 which is not near his residential address.
00:45 He has travelled with a knife and subsequently the bishop and the priest have been stabbed
00:54 who are currently in surgery as I understand it.
00:58 They are lucky to be alive.
01:00 We understand he is about 16 years of age.
01:04 He is known to police.
01:07 However, he has not been on any terror watch list.
01:13 This is a disturbing incident.
01:18 There is no place for violence in our community.
01:22 There is no place for violent extremism.
01:25 We are a peace loving nation.
01:27 This is a time to unite, not divide as a community and as a country.
01:33 It does appear to be religiously motivated but we continue our lines of investigation.
01:39 At the same time, our job is also to look at individuals connected with the attacker
01:44 to assure ourselves that there is no one else in the community with similar intent.
01:48 At this stage we have no indications of that but it is prudent that we do this
01:53 to determine there is no threats or immediate threats to security.
01:57 At this time we are not seeing that.
01:59 I understand that people are feeling uneasy and that is understandable
02:04 given the atrocity that occurred on Saturday and then this incident last night.
02:09 I discussed this with Premier Minns this morning as well.
02:13 Part of us standing up here is to reassure the public that the authorities are doing their work.
02:21 I have every faith in the NSW Police, in the Australian Federal Police and our security agencies
02:28 to do their work. We will provide them with every support.
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