This really hasn't been looked at anywhere near enough. Naveed Akram, the young Bondi gunman allegedly came onto ASIO's radar in Oct 2019 where he was allegedly "monitored" for 6 months. ASIO claims they concluded after 6 short months that he “no longer posed a security threat.” That brings ASIO to March/April 2020 The linked ABC article shows former ASIO head, Dennis Richardson, who recently resigned from the Bondi Royal Commission, indicating to ABC that his resignation was influenced by many factors, including him questioning ASIO’s sudden dropping of Akram’s monitoring. In the beginning of 2020, ASIO was reeling from one of the most significant budget and staffing cuts in its history, implemented by Dennis Richardson's successor, the eternally publicity focused, Mike Burgess. This blood letting of ASIO staff, known as the Red Wedding, saw many experienced ASIO staff leave or take redundancies in and around exactly the same period it was allegedly concluded that Akram was “no longer a threat”. In other words, they simply stopped what they were doing. The time of March/April 2020 is also highly significant for the full throttle impact and uncertainty of Covid as it hit Australia with a bang. Layoffs began, workplaces started entering restrictions and panic set in. Given Dennis Richardson’s recent statements, it’s worth questioning why the very timely and quick conclusion from Oct to March that Naveed Akram simply didn’t need to be monitored or assessed anymore, also happened to occur at the same time of ASIO clearing out so many vital staff with $8.6M in savage budget cuts, as well as the devastating and unprecedented arrival of Covid. abc.net.au/news/2026-04-29/d…