In an address to the nation alongside AFP chief Reece Kershaw and ASIO director-general Mike Burgess, Albanese praised the police officer and medics who came to the rescue.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has warned against speculation about the motive for the brutal killings at a Sydney shopping centre when the location and nature of the crime is fuelling talk of a terror attack.
“For these Australians, their first instinct in the face of danger was to help someone else,” he said. “We are thinking of all those families whose loved ones have been caught up in this attack. In the horror of this afternoon, there was also heroism. “She entered the proceedings that were taking place – obviously very dangerous – by herself. She is certainly a hero,” he said.
“It is clear that individuals in the centre helped and just comforted each other at the most terrifying moment in their lives,” she said.
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