{"id":172596,"date":"2025-02-04T09:19:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T23:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172596"},"modified":"2025-02-04T09:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T23:19:55","slug":"shocking-failure-tony-abbott-slams-anthony-albanese-over-sydney-terror-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=172596","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shocking failure\u2019: Tony Abbott slams Anthony Albanese over Sydney terror plot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has slammed Anthony Albanese over a \u201cshocking failure of leadership\u201d after the Prime Minister was kept in the dark over an alleged anti-Semitic terror plot in Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reportedly took nine days for Mr Albanese to be informed about the discovery of a caravan filled with powerful explosives and the addresses of Jewish sites, which authorities said could have led to a \u201cpotential mass casualty event\u201d in northwestern Sydney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NSW Police were alerted to the chilling find by a local Dural resident on January 19. The state\u2019s Premier Chris Minns was briefed on the matter on January 20, before the Australian Federal Police joined the investigation the following day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blasting the delay in communication, Mr Abbot told The Daily Telegraph<\/a><\/em>: \u201cIt\u2019s hard to credit that NSW police would uncover enough explosives to kill hundreds of people in a caravan belonging to anti-Semitic activists with indications that it was intended to kill Jews and that no one would bother to tell the PM.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEither the authorities aren\u2019t taking public safety seriously or they know the PM doesn\u2019t take it sufficiently seriously so decided that he should be left out of the loop,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEither way it\u2019s a shocking failure of leadership extending right to the top.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tony Abbott has called out the \u201cshocking failure of leadership\u201d. Picture: NewsWire \/ Martin Ollman<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prime Minister was reportedly not informed about the discovery until after it was reported by The Daily Telegraph<\/em> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Attorney-General and national security committee were also all \u201cout of the loop\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The week before on January 21, Mr Albanese and Mr Minns attended a joint press conference and a national cabinet meeting over a Maroubra child care firebombed with graffiti in a suspected anti-Semitic attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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