Firestorm erupts over whether NSW premier Chris Minns knew about fake terror plot before hate speech and protest laws passed
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At the end of January, the New South Wales premier stood grim faced, surrounded by the state’s most senior police officers. It had been leaked to the media that a caravan had been found parked hazardously in a quiet town on the outskirts of Sydney, laden with explosives. Inside were a list of Jewish targets.
“This is the discovery of a potential mass casualty event,” Chris Minns told reporters. “There’s only one way of calling it out, and that is terrorism.”
