In the fraught days after the Bondi Beach shootings came promises of gun law reform and a gun buyback, legislation to crack down on antisemitism and impose limits on public assembly and protest marches and the application of the blowtorch to the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, but somehow the role of Australia’s security authority slipped below the radar.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and ASIO director general Mike Burgess.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

On Monday were learned that the man subsequently charged with 15 counts of murder, Naveed Akram, had been investigated by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation six years ago, but no action was taken. His dead accomplice, his father Sajid Akram, had applied to own guns years before and was issued a category AB firearm licence in 2023 that allowed him to possess six guns.

Ensuing information revealed Akram as a teenage street proselytiser who followed a........

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