Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended the NSW Police decision to keep a domestic terrorism plot involving a caravan packed with explosives secret from the public for 10 days. Albanese stated that national security agencies regularly brief him on operational matters, but he refrains from disclosing details. NSW Premier Chris Minns echoed this sentiment, stating that the secrecy was necessary to avoid compromising the police investigation.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has bristled at questions about when he was briefed about the caravan packed with powerful explosives, saying he does not go into operational matters.NSW Police kept the domestic terrorism plot from the public despite being discovered in Dural 10 days earlier, which Albanese said was necessary.“The facts have been put out there. Now, I receive regular briefings from our national security agencies and from the Australian Federal Police.
And in this case, this incident has been discovered, people have been held to account about ongoing investigations. And that’s the second thing that needs to happen, is that the job of politicians is to support our security agencies.”Minns has said the call to keep the discovery of the caravan secret was the “right decision”, saying he won’t commit to issuing a media release once a counter-terrorism investigation commences.
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