they are saying the military went after us and our families and we are going after you and your families. we want you to feel our pain. what they have said is they are in contact with the attackers inside the school. this is a hostage situation. now they also put in their statement and we have yet to clarify and cross-check this with pakistani military, this is what pakistani taliban put in their statement. they said they effectively took out, they took weapons away from the special services military who entered the school trying to resolve the situation. there was a military operation going on. we don t know what has happened to the special services forces that went in. the individuals that went in. their weapons were taken away by the pakistani militants. i need to point out that the attackers in the school are wearing suicide vests. this was made clear by pakistani taliban. they said they would target children. children who seem to be reaching around the age of puberty and
individuals acting alone as we believe this offender was, without any prior warning or knowledge makes it very difficult for police agencies to disrupt that activity. of course, we need to work through now the facts. we need to work through and establish exactly what we know before we make those judgments. and that will come in the coming days and weeks. give that this guy was i echo the prime minister s comments. we are outraged that this guy was out. we need to understand why he was, why he wasn t picked up, and we ll be working closely with the federal authorities, together with our own authorities to understand what we need to do better. the community has every right to feel upset. i m incredibly upset and outraged. what we need to do is ensure that everything is done to learn from this. can we do it better, and that s exactly what we re working with, with the federal government in the coming weeks. when you say outrage allow this man to be in custody to do th
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Former NSW Premier Mike Baird has been named as the inaguagral CEO of the Susan McKinnon Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation aimed at strengthening democracy.
He joined RN Breakfast to discuss why he's made the move back to politics without stepping directly into the halls of power.
Guest: Mike Baird, CEO of the Susan McKinnon Foundation