Kate Hawkesby: The Auckland terror attack leaves so many questions

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 5, 2021 · 2m

How you holding up there Auckland?

As the meme says, what a year last week has been.

A Level 4 lockdown, an escapee from MIQ, flooding in West Auckland, and a terrorist attack.

I mean you wouldn’t read about it.

Except that we have.

How’s everyone’s nerves?

I have so many questions.

Why was someone on a terror watchlist out in the community?

Why was someone known to the PM at the highest level of office, as a serious threat to Kiwis, and yet the law was never changed to get him in jail?

Why, after Christchurch, has nothing been learned?

Why wasn’t this aspect of the terror laws tightened up?…