Ian Reeson
651 posts
@iar60
Father, Papa and Grandpa. Former (now medically retired) NSW primary school principal.
Bondi Beach Attack Royal Commission may uncover stuff the LNP wanted hidden. ---Get a coffee, it's 434 words you NEED to read if you like to be properly informed. 🧵1/2 Sussan Ley is out there auditioning for PM, clutching her pearls and demanding a Royal Commission after #bondiattack . Big emotions. Big statements. Very selective memory. Because here’s the bit the LNP is hoping everyone forgets: They didn’t just fail to act after Christchurch. They very deliberately staged action — then walked away from it. March 2019: Christchurch happens. Scott Morrison convenes a national summit. 📢🤡📰Big talk about online extremism, livestreamed violence, radicalisation. 📸📹🎆A Taskforce is announced with fanfare . June 2019: The Taskforce delivers a detailed report. Clear recommendations. Five streams: prevention, detection, transparency, deterrence, capacity building. Explicit focus on extremist material online. Clear warning that voluntary measures may not be enough. It looked like action. It photographed well. It bought headlines. And who was the “tough on security” enforcer front and centre at the time? Peter Dutton. Home Affairs Minister. Permanent scowl. Endless press conferences about being “strong” and “unapologetic”. Then came the quiet part. The Taskforce met just three times. By May 2021 — still under the Coalition, still under #PeterDutton’s Home Affairs architecture — it was quietly disbanded. -No announcement. -No follow-up. -No public accountability. -No final assessment of whether the recommendations worked. At the same time — again, on Peter Dutton’s watch: • A parliamentary inquiry into extremism was watered down • “Far-right extremism” was scrubbed from the language • The scope was deliberately blurred • Hearings were minimised • The inquiry was never finished This wasn’t an accident. This wasn’t oversight. This was a political decision. They set it up to look like they were doing something — then shut it down once the cameras moved on and the questions got uncomfortable. Now, after #Bondi, the same people want a Royal Commission not to prevent the next attack, but to: Rewrite the accountability timeline Shift blame onto Labor Create the appearance of toughness Avoid discussing what they dismantled while in power A Royal Commission is very handy when you don’t want anyone asking: Why did Peter Dutton’s Home Affairs kill the prevention work? Why was the inquiry buried? Why was the ideology stripped out of the language? Why was online extremism left to “voluntary commitments” and a feel-good podcast nobody watches? You don’t get to gut the fire prevention system, walk away for years, then scream at the next occupants when the building burns. That’s not leadership. That’s political arson followed by performative outrage. And Sussan Ley’s audition doesn’t change the facts. The LNP built this system. Peter Dutton presided over it. They hollowed it out. Now they want a Royal Commission to pretend they weren’t holding the matches. That’s not accountability. That’s industrial-grade wankfuckery. Ref: Links below in thread.
