Good morning everybody. Thank you, Prime Minister. Thank you, Minister. You've already heard a fair bit of detail from my Victorian counterpart this morning, but let me just reinforce that this is a significant disruption of what we would describe as an imminent terrorist event in Melbourne, Victoria.
Community safety will always be the number one priority for our law enforcement agencies and we've acted as soon as possible with the best evidence and the best material and the best intelligence available to us to make sure that community safety was being protected.
We do believe, as you've heard, that we have removed this threat in its entirety and we don't believe that this group poses any threat to the Victorian community or more broadly, the Australian community. What this reinforces, of course - as the Prime Minister has said, and the Minister and others - is that law enforcement agencies across Australia, working internationally as well but working with our intelligence and security partners, are doing everything that we can to ensure that at this particular time of the year - as with any time of the year - Australians are safe to go about their business, and to go about enjoying the freedoms that we have here in Australia. I think it's very important at this time - as you've heard, as well - we want people to be aware of their surroundings. We want people to understand the environment they are in. But we want them to be assured that their safety is paramount to us, that their safety is our number one concern and that they should be very comfortable getting about and doing what they would normally do at this time of year - as I say, as with any time of the-year. We are working very hard with the community. We are working very hard across this country. I think this is very good evidence of that work that's been done to date.
As you heard earlier this morning, seven people were arrested. We're anticipating that five of those will be charged a little bit later today, where there'll be material put on the public record, and then the court process will take place. There's not a lot that we can say right now for obvious reasons, but certainly happy to take questions.
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