00:02First up we'll be hearing from the ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess, particularly around the intelligence
00:09gathering in the lead up to the Bondi terror attack.
00:13The interim report flagged concerns or questions around the resourcing.
00:20The share of intelligence funding had found that there had been a significant decline
00:24of that money that had gone towards counter-terrorism since 2020.
00:28So we can expect questions around that.
00:31And also what intelligence authorities knew about the gunmen.
00:36Given that they had been on the radar but had slipped off the radar, they first came
00:41to the attention of ASIO back in 2019.
00:44So we can expect questions around that.
00:46And later in the day we'll be hearing from Stephen Nutt, the Assistant Commissioner, one
00:51of the Assistant Commissioners at the Australian Federal Police, as well as Leanne McCusker
00:55from New South Wales Police.
00:56She's the head of the Counter-Terrorism and Special Tactics Command.
01:00So we're going to be hearing from those two different levels of policing around the different
01:05security arrangements, the information sharing and the circumstances surrounding the Bondi
01:11attack.
01:11What resources were made available on the day?
01:14And then at the end of today we'll be hearing from two representatives of the Community Security
01:20Group.
01:20That's a Jewish volunteer led organisation that provides security for synagogues, Jewish events,
01:27schools.
01:28So we're going to be hearing a lot more about what was requested of police on the day of
01:33the Bondi terror attack.
01:34And Gavin, what are we expecting to hear over the next few weeks?
01:37It will really build upon what was the focus of the interim report around counter-terrorism
01:45resourcing, the use of intelligence resources towards particularly anti-Semitism and counter-terrorism,
01:54and also around information sharing between federal and state authorities.
02:00We saw in the interim report that it was revealed that the New South Wales police presence was
02:07a roving one at this event in Bondi and that they were required not to be there for the entirety
02:13of the event, and that at any given time there were between three and four police officers
02:18there.
02:19That's despite the fact that the Community Security Group had warned in the days and weeks
02:24leading up to it that there was a likely possibility of a terror attack.
02:28So we're going to be hearing a lot more about that.
02:30It will then get into closed sessions as this block of hearings gets on, because much of this
02:37is highly sensitive with regards to national security.
02:40So we expect this week will be mostly public hearings, but it will start to move into closed
02:46sessions, but certainly a shift from the first block of hearings, which was really focusing
02:50on lived experiences around anti-Semitism.
02:53And this is now really getting to the nitty gritty around counter-terrorism, policing and
02:58intelligence sharing.
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