Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I can also confirm that the Director-General of ASIO has said publicly that the letter in question was handled perfectly appropriately by the Attorney-General. I do suggest to members opposite that any proposition that they might be advancing implicitly, if not explicitly, that somehow more attention to this letter would have prevented the Martin Place atrocity is simply fanciful.

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