{"id":353040,"date":"2025-12-17T03:13:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353040\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T03:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:13:13","slug":"australia-to-examine-intelligence-systems-after-bondi-beach-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/353040\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia to examine intelligence systems after Bondi Beach shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/c6820bd984281d354224a755aa65c1fe.jpg\"\/>Armed police work at the scene after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Dec 14, 2025. (PHOTO \/ AFP)<\/p>\n<p>SYDNEY &#8211; Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that the country&#8217;s intelligence systems would be examined following the fatal mass shooting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/625380#At-least-10-dead-in-mass-shooting-at-Sydney&#039;s-Bondi-Beach-2025-12-14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney&#8217;s Bondi Beach<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Albanese told Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) radio that there were clearly &#8220;real issues&#8221; with the intelligence system prior to the shooting, which targeted an event celebrating the first day of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the government would examine the way the system currently works and how federal agencies interact with law enforcement in Australia&#8217;s states and territories.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to make any adjustments that are necessary to the way that our intelligence, security agencies, and police agencies all interact with each other,&#8221; Albanese said.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/625498#Australia-set-for-major-overhaul-of-gun-laws--2025-12-16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australia set for major overhaul of gun laws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities on Tuesday confirmed that the two perpetrators of the attack, 50-year-old Sajid Akram and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram, were motivated by Islamic State (ISIS) ideology and had traveled to the Philippines in November.<\/p>\n<p>The ABC reported that the two men received &#8220;military style training&#8221; from Islamic militants in the southern Philippines, though authorities said the trip remained under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Albanese confirmed that Naveed Akram had been investigated in 2019 by the Australian Security Intelligence Organization over suspected ties to a Sydney-based ISIS terrorism cell.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/625491#Bondi-Beach-gunmen-had-ISIS-flags,-visited-Philippines-2025-12-16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bondi Beach gunmen had ISIS flags, visited Philippines<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Tuesday, the Australian National Imams Council, the country&#8217;s central Islamic body, condemned the attack and labeled ISIS as an evil and dangerous terrorist organization &#8220;whose actions and ideology stand in complete opposition to the teachings of Islam and the values upheld by Muslims worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen people, including Sajid Akram, were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials said that 22 injured people remained hospitalized as of Wednesday morning, with nine in critical condition and 13 in serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armed police work at the scene after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Dec 14,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,193825,193824,44,193826],"class_list":["post-353040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-intelligence-systems-to-be-examined","tag-australian-prime-minister-anthony-albanese","tag-news","tag-the-fatal-mass-shooting-at-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}