House debates
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Questions without Notice
National Security
2:51 pm
Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister be honest with the Australian people and advise why he didn't receive a briefing for at least seven days after the New South Wales Premier had been advised of the alleged planned terrorist attack in New South Wales?
Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
There are a range of assertions in that question that the Leader of the Opposition chooses to raise, because that's the point—just to play politics. It's not to try to find and hunt down the perpetrators, not to make sure that the perpetrators are held to account, not to find out who is behind the front people, not to discuss or get a briefing of intelligence. Well, I stand with the AFP and ASIO and the ASD and all those who are working so hard to hold these people to account and to ensure that either the perpetrators themselves or those behind antisemitic attacks are held to account, arrested, charged and put in the clink. That is my priority. The opposition leader is showing what his priority is here today, and it is all wrong.