Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop

For now, Australians seeking to understand any intelligence gaps, failures, missed warnings and government failings before the Bondi massacre are expected to accept a keyhole view.

Naveed Akram and his father travelled to Uzbekistan around 2022 and a former terror hotspot in the Philippines shortly before committing the Bondi massacre. 

The head of Australia's domestic intelligence agency reveals it reviewed past terrorism investigations in 2024 which did not extend to a re-examination of the soon to be Bondi gunmen because of a resourcing decision.

Australia's intelligence agency, ASIO, issued its annual holiday threat assessment less than two weeks before the Hanukkah terrorist attack at Bondi Beach but did not identify heightened risks to the Jewish festival, despite earlier declaring antisemitism as its top priority in terms of threat to life.

Australia's intelligence agencies had cut counterterrorism funding to its lowest share this century before the Bondi massacre, despite warnings that a terrorist attack was probable and that antisemitic violence posed an escalating threat to life.

The political energy spent on the "ISIS brides" has not been matched by serious attention to the deficiencies in Australia's counterterrorism architecture.

The message beneath the restrained language of the report investigating the Bondi terror attack is that by Hanukkah 2025, Australia had grown dangerously complacent about terrorism – and about the safety of the Jewish community. 

While advising the royal commission examining the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, the former head of Australia's domestic intelligence agency questioned whether early assessments of gunman Naveed Akram were sufficiently rigorous.

A teenager who slipped the intelligence net and stabbed a Sydney bishop in an alleged terrorist attack 20 months before the Bondi Beach massacre has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, a court hears.

Police recorded 197 incidents of LGBTQIA+ hate-related violence and charged 103 people over the attacks since 2023. 

A suspected serial violent homophobe linked to an Islamic State terrorist network has walked free on probation after pleading guilty to a brutal snuff-video-style gay bashing.

The New South Wales premier has flagged harsher punishments and new criminal offences in response to gay and bisexual teens being lured online and bashed on camera.

An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of IS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.

Bondi Beach terrorist Sajid Akram voiced support for the Islamic State group (IS) in 2019 and expressed admiration for a leading Al Qaeda propagandist, according to accounts from two men who moved in the same extremist circles.

The former undercover agent spied on the Akrams when he infiltrated a Sydney IS terror cell for Australia's intelligence agency.

A prayer centre in Sydney's west is being shut down by the local council after it discovered it did not have the necessary council permits.

The ABC has revealed that the Bondi gunmen, Sajid and Naveed Akram recently travelled to the Philippines to receive what is being called "military style" training.

Father-son gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram travelled to the Philippines to receive "military-style training" in the month before they killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, security sources have confirmed.

At least one of the gunmen who killed 15 people in Sunday's Bondi Beach terrorist attack was known to authorities as a follower of a notorious Sydney pro-Islamic State cleric, the ABC can reveal.

Australia's domestic intelligence agency, ASIO, examined one of the Bondi Beach gunmen six years ago for his close ties to a Sydney-based Islamic State terrorism cell, the ABC understands.

A law enforcement official has told the ABC that police have raided one of the alleged gunman's house in Sydney's south-west.

Police had intelligence that Sydney's Alameddine organised crime network wanted a former UFC fighter dead more than 18 months before his shooting murder this week.

The grand final-bound Origin prop and at least three other NRL players are promoting a clothing brand linked to the Alameddine crime family, fuelling police concern the league has failed to stem the influence of organised crime.

Sydney cleric Wisam Haddad is working with a convicted terrorism recruiter to exploit the pro-Palestinian movement, radicalise Australian teens and feed Islamic State's revival, an ABC investigation reveals.

A former special forces trooper will be the first Australian soldier to stand trial for a war crime, more than 13 years after he shot dead a villager in an Afghan field.