Overview
- The second block of hearings resumed Monday with ASIO director‑general Mike Burgess and senior AFP and NSW Police officers called to explain what agencies knew before the December 14 Bondi Beach attack.
- Counsel assisting told the commission there is no evidence any agency had specific intelligence of an armed assault and described the massacre as a "surprise attack."
- Community Security Group warned NSW Police before the event that a terror attack was likely and asked for a static police presence, but police relied on brief mobile patrols and did not complete a formal risk assessment.
- Burgess told the inquiry ASIO was "stretched" across multiple threats and had shifted resources toward espionage and foreign interference, while insisting serious counter‑terror matters were investigated.
- The commission’s April interim report proposed 14 reforms including tighter security at Jewish events and a national gun‑buyback, witnesses have faced online harassment referred to police, and the final report is due on December 14, 2026.