PM Albanese says a joint counter terror taskforce has been set up after the stabbing at western Sydney church - national security committee meeting to be held today. NSW police treating as terror incident

Calls for community to 'remain calm' after incidents of recent days

The mining industry wanted Australian environment law to stay weak so it could keep clearing critical wildlife habitat and not be made accountable for fuelling climate change. it appears they got their wish smh.com.au/politics/feder…

That was a quick jump off the bandwagon…

'Mr Lehrmann behaved disgracefully. He defended the criminal charge on a false basis, lied to
police, and then allowed that lie to go uncorrected before the jury. ' He also allowed Higgins, an assault victim, to be cross-examined on a knowingly false premise.' Justice Lee.

'Having escaped the lion’s den, Mr Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat'

Indeed

Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins, judge finds on balance of probabilities – latest news theguardian.com/media/live/202…

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The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has announced an independent coronial inquiry into the Bondi Junction attack. He said $18m would be sent to the state corner to conduct the investigation that would focus on the police response and government interactions with killer.

Federal Court live stream open in one browser window, Dictionary dot com / Google in the other to search some of the terms Justice Lee is using in his judgement

(recent search - 'all mouth no trousers')

Lehrmann judgement live stream returns after the tech omnishambles interrupted the beginning: youtube.com/watch?v=07A_Az…

Fun fact: 'omnishambles' was the Oxford English Dictionary's word of the year in 2012.

It means ''a situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterised by a string of blunders and miscalculations'. Federal Court of Australia #Lehrmann

PM Albanese has named the sixth victim of the Bondi Junction stabbing as a Chinese national studying in Australia, Yixuan Cheng

(via KIIS FM)

Islamophobic & anti-immigrant rhetoric & false accusations. Antisemitic speculation that led to thousands of X posts naming the wrong man. A news outlet actually using that name on air. A first look at the absolute mess following the Bondi Junction attack. theguardian.com/australia-news…

Point made by Patrick McGorry just now to Raf Epstein (will defer to the Professor’s expertise): People with schizophrenia are less likely to commit violent crimes, not more. He says fact NSW Police Force say killer was targeting women means could be other factors than mental illness.

30 year old Faraz Tahir, a recently arrived refugee and a security guard at Bondi Junction Westfield's died trying to protect others.

PM Albanese on ABC Radio, on Bondi stabbing:

'This man wielded a knife, but if it was an automatic gun, then we would have been speaking about hundreds of deaths... an important reminder of how important it is that we do have strong gun laws in this country'

PM and AFP say not the time to speculate on terrorism.

NSW Police chief says early work on identifying the man suggests the motive is not terrorism.

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

No ongoing risk. Attacker believed to be a 40yo man. Yet to be formally identified. “We don’t have fears for that person holding an ideation.. it’s not a terrorism incident.” - Webb

Commissioner Karen Webb speaking about the #BondiJunction stabbing. Four women died in shopping centre, one died in hospital. One man died in the centre. Further eight in hospitals including a nine month old.

Bondi stabbing: PM Albanese says AFP activated in investigation, in contact with ASIO - says too early to speculate on motive or any terror link