The NSW premier was on the first day of a planned family break when an attack unfolded at Bondi. His week was about to get much worse.
Already a subscriber?The twinkling lights of Tokyo in the early evening were just coming into the view of Japan Airlines flight 052 when NSW Premier Chris Minns, sitting on board with his family of five, felt the phone vibrate in his pocket.
For a young government and a police force reeling from a turbulent two months, it was a tragic double whammy that put leaders and policymakers on edge for a potentially explosive week. It’s also been a test of broader cohesion across a city still marked by a divisive lockdown policy and ain some pockets after one of their own emerged as an alleged murderer earlier in the year.
Saliba, who is a former management consultant and former AFP agent who specialised in organised crime and terrorism, had also sent a video of the alleged attack which the trio passed, in shock, around the table.Chris Minns and NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb at Bondi Junction on Thursday.
Just as the overriding communications objective at Bondi Junction had been to provide a message of reassurance to the community, the Fairfield situation required a more nuanced response: a call for calm.At 10.10pm, and as a group of more than a dozen faith leaders prepared to dial into a snap Microsoft Teams meeting with the premier, Kamper, Cullen and La Posta, Minns’ first official statement went out.
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