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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivers a summary of the findings of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques. (Video first published in December 2020)
EXPLAINER: Natural hazards such as earthquakes, biosecurity intrusions like the Queensland fruit fly, and pandemics such as Covid-19 are obvious and known threats to New Zealanders. Domestic terrorism and violent extremism were less understood, before ripping into the public’s consciousness with the terror attack on March 15, 2019. But who was responsible for this ignorance? The Royal Commission into the March 15 terror attack, which released its report on Tuesday, said the lack of discussion about counter-terrorism, intelligence, and security came from the top.