BREAKING: The shooting by Nathaniel, Gareth and Stacey Train, who gunned down two police officers and a neighbour on a rural Queensland property last year, has been deemed a terrorist attack motivated by religious extremism. Read more:
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil wants to bring on a public debate about foreign interference after a plot against an Iranian-Australian family was foiled by authorities.
“And my message to regimes seeking to interfere with Australia and Australians: Don’t, we are watching you, and we will catch you.” Video of the fire posted to social media showed water bombing aircraft flying near houses and thick ash clouds over the area. Wong also condemned a recent Israeli decision to authorise nine settlements in the occupied West Bank, joining the governments of France, Germany, Italy, the UK and US who released a joint statement this week denouncing the move.
“Do you know how many Iranians will stay as a consequence of that? Six thousand. So if you’re really serious about protecting Iranian Australians and not sending them back to a brutal regime, then maybe you might acknowledge that that decision protects 6000 people,” Wong said. On Wednesday, shadow attorney-general Julian Leeser gave a speech in which he said the Coalition would support a legislative amendment allowing Australia to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.
“Doesn’t this prove that Labor’s policies to end the deterrent of temporary protection visas provides an incentive to people smugglers to restart their evil trade?” “There is no ultimatum, just an offer to pass the bill this afternoon if you stop opening coal and gas mines but this morning you said on Sky TV of course you would approve new coal mines.
The Trains, who shot constables Rachel McCrow and Matthew Arnold and local man Alan Dare at Wieambilla on December 12, “acted as an autonomous cell and executed a religiously-motivated terrorist attack,” Queensland’s deputy police commissioner Tracy Linford said this afternoon. Linford said Queensland Police had also met with the FBI and provided information to them, but she confirmed the family had acted alone.In the nation’s capital, an all-day meeting of the government’s 21-member Voice working group of Indigenous leaders is under way.
As crossbenchers filed into a private dining room in Parliament House shortly after 1pm, media were briefly allowed into the meeting to capture the opening remarks before being asked to leave.“We’re going to need all the friends we can possibly get. This is going to get ugly now and it will get worse. So hang in there and hold the line,” Anderson said.
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