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Jamal Rifi said: “She doesn’t know where he got the knife, how he ended up at church, why he stabbed the bishop. She just doesn’t know,” 
theage Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 9:30:00 AM Central European Summer Time
Greg Barton says: "This is not to undermine the damage angry men can, and do, inflict. Domestic violence is a bigger threat to Australians than terrorism," "Calling something a terrorist act doesn't make it more or less serious than anything else, rather the categorisation is to provide conceptual clarity for the sake of the ensuing investigation"
abc-au Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 6:17:00 AM Central European Summer Time
Greg Barton says: "Most people with mental health issues are not violent, and mental health, if it's appropriately dealt with, which includes medication and therapeutic management, people can be very safe. And that includes specific things like schizophrenia,"
abc-au Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 6:17:00 AM Central European Summer Time
Karen Webb told: “The videos (of the attack) speak for themselves don’t they?”
TheFrontierPost-en Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 10:26:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Karen Webb said: “We will allege that there is some degree of premeditation… this person traveled to that location… he traveled with a knife and subsequently the bishop and the priest were stabbed,”
whatsnew2day Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 12:44:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Michael Logico said: “The reason why we do exercises is to demonstrate our combat readiness and it is also a demonstration of our comprehensive archipelagic defense concept, you do exercises for that primary reason – to maintain a high level of readiness,”
rappler Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 7:33:00 AM Central European Summer Time
Karen Webb said: "He wasn't known to us from a terrorism point of view, he was not on any terror watchlist... This is the first time this individual has come to our attention in this manner,"
newshub Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 1:07:00 AM Central European Summer Time
Mike Burgess said: “information or evidence that suggests actually the motivation was religiously motivated or ideologically motivated,” “In the case of Saturday, that was not the case. In this case, the information we and the police have before us would indicate strongly that that is the case and that’s why it was called an act of terrorism”
breakingnews-ie Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 7:10:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Chris Minns told: “New South Wales Police and community leaders have been battling misinformation spreading around the web inciting community members to rush to particular religious facilities and mosques and churches on the hint or the rumour of some kind of violent activity taking place,”
breakingnews-ie Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 7:10:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Chris Minns added: “It’s very difficult to maintain community cohesion when outright lies are spread within the community inciting the worst fears of particularly young people,”
breakingnews-ie Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 7:10:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Mr Albanese said: “I say this to Damien Guerot, who is dealing with his visa applications, that you are welcome here, you are welcome to stay for as long as you like,”
breakingnews-ie Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 7:10:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Karen Webb told: “The videos (of the attack) speak for themselves don’t they?”
cnn Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 6:55:00 PM Central European Summer Time
William Jurney said: “This year, we’ve increased the scope, scale and complexity across all domains,” “We’re building military readiness across the full range of combined and joint operations. It’s our most expansive Balikatan yet”
philstar Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 6:03:00 PM Central European Summer Time
William Jurney said: “Balikatan is more than an exercise; it’s a tangible demonstration of our shared commitment to each other. It matters for regional peace, it matters for regional stability,” “When we increase our mutual response and defense capabilities, we strengthen our ability to promote regional security and protect our shared interests”
philstar Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 6:03:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Karen Webb said: “We believe there are elements that are satisfied in terms of religious-motivated extremism and of course the intimidation of the public through that person’s acts, by attending that church, whilst it was being live-streamed, intimidating not only the parishioners in attendance but those parishioners who were watching online and subsequently, those people that turned up to the church on the outside and the subsequent riot that happened,”
torontosun Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 3:05:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Mike Burgess said: “information or evidence that suggests actually the motivation was religiously motivated or ideologically motivated,” “In the case of Saturday, that was not the case. In this case, the information we and the police have before us … would indicate strongly that that is the case and that’s why it was called an act of terrorism”
torontosun Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 3:05:00 PM Central European Summer Time
Mike Burgess said: “information or evidence that suggests actually the motivation was religiously motivated or ideologically motivated,” “In the case of Saturday, that was not the case. In this case, the information we and the police have before us … would indicate strongly that that is the case and that’s why it was called an act of terrorism”
nationalpost Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 2:26:00 PM Central European Summer Time
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