The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, was the first to indicate something might have gone awry when he told ABC radio on Wednesday that \u201cquite clearly\u201d there were issues.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to examine exactly the way that systems work. We need to look back at what happened in 2019 when this person was looked at, the assessment that was made,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The younger alleged shooter, 24-year-old Naveed Akram, came under the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation\u2019s radar in October 2019 for alleged associations with individuals involved in a reported Islamic State cell.<\/p>\n
Asio looked at Akram for a period of six months, Albanese said on Monday, but concluded he was not an ongoing threat.<\/p>\n
Asio \u2018cannot surveil\u2019 everyone forever<\/p>\n
The following day, the New South Wales police commissioner, Mal Lanyon, confirmed Naveed and his 50-year-old father, Sajid, had travelled to the Philippines only weeks before their alleged attack on the Chanukah by the Sea event at Bondi.<\/p>\n
Between 1 November and 28 November, the father-son duo stayed in a room at GV Hotel \u2013 a budget hotel in Davao City, the main city of the southern province of Mindanao. Hotel staff told the Guardian the suspects rarely left their hotel except for an hour or so at a time during the four-week visit.<\/p>\n
The choice to travel to Mindanao paints a potentially darker picture.<\/p>\n
The southern island\u2019s more remote regions, west of Davao, are at the centre of the country\u2019s<\/a> pro-Islamic State and Islamist militant groups. Ongoing investigations are examining whether the trip was directly linked to any preparations for their alleged attack.<\/p>\n Critics have questioned whether Asio\u2019s look at Naveed\u2019s associations six years prior should have triggered a movement alert warning. If they should have, was information properly shared between authorities?<\/p>\n Prof Michele Grossman is a founder of the Addressing Violent Extremism and Radicalisation to Terrorism (Avert) research network. Grossman said questioning why Asio hadn\u2019t kept constant surveillance on Naveed for six years after ruling him out as a ongoing threat was the wrong question to be asking, and that the focus should now be on what he has been doing since then<\/p>\n \u201cAgencies look at thousands and thousands of people who are associates of, or otherwise on the periphery of, various investigations,\u201d Grossman told Guardian Australia.<\/p>\n \u201cThey cannot surveil them all continuously over a long period. They have to prioritise, and they should prioritise.\u201d<\/p>\n The links to Islamic State are still being examined as of this weekend. But the Australian federal police commissioner, Krissy Barrett, said more evidence had emerged by Friday \u2013 an IS-run video stream claiming it was the inspiration behind the attacks.<\/p>\n Like a jigsaw puzzle, the nightmarish painting slowly forms piece by painstaking piece.<\/p>\n The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, told ABC\u2019s 7.30 he had \u201cfull confidence\u201d<\/a> in Asio\u2019s decisions relating to Naveed Akram.<\/p>\n![\"List](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6000.jpg\")
List of the 59 offences the alleged Bondi beach gunman has been charged with \u2013 video<\/p>\n