Oh dear, I can’t stop laughing! LABOR put PH at risk of terrorist attack? I think not—monkey, take a bow!
Quote:Liberal senator Bill Heffernan has had the last laugh on the serious question of security at Australia’s Parliament.
Earlier this year, security was slackened in a bid to save A$400,000. MPs' staff and departmental officials were allowed to go into the building without being scanned.
Heffernan was outraged as what he saw at the laxity of the new arrangements and arrived at an estimates hearing in May with a piece of pipe and other paraphernalia to demonstrate you could get a bomb into the place.
Not long after, the old system of everybody being scanned returned.
Now Tony Abbott says that this month he was advised of “chatter” among terrorist networks about a potential attack on “government people and Parliament House has been specifically mentioned”. He had commissioned an urgent review and in future the Australian Federal Police – previously just in charge of security around the outside of the building – will have responsibility for inside too.
“There will be armed Australian Federal Police present in and around our national parliament at all times”, he said on Friday.
Maybe the “chatter” changes everything but it’s passing strange that Parliament House’s internal security could, within months, have gone from ripe for cuts, to requiring police with guns.
https://theconversation.com/parliament-ramps-up-security-only-months-after-scali
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Michelle Gratten, a real Abbott groupy!
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