Too many unanswered questions in ACL explosion (ACL = Australian Christian Lobby)

Out In Perth ^ | 30th December 2016

[naturalman1975]

Newspaper columnist and broadcaster Miranda Devine has said there are too many unanswered questions in relation to the explosion at the Australian Christian Lobby’s headquarters in Canberra.

Describing the incident as a “car bombing” Devine said ACT police should be doing more to reassure the public that the incident was not terror related, and that there were too many unanswered questions.

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Joining Devine and Daily Telegraph writer Tim Blair on the show, Lyle Shelton, the Managing Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, said police had not given him any additional information about the incident, but he was surprised that police had categorically denied that the explosion was not politically, religiously or ideologically motivated.

“This to us it just seems incredible that within hours of something like this they can categorically rule out any nefarious motive.” Shelton said.

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Former Detective Sergeant Tim Priest and author appeared on Wednesday night’s radio program and said the police’s response to the incident had been puzzling, and in his opiniopn it didn’t make sense that the police had not released more information.

Devine said if the explosion had occurred at the Lakemba Mosque or the Marriage Equality Headquarters a lot more would be being made of it.

“There would be a conga line of politicians wanting to put their arm around the local Iman,” Priest said. “There would be considerable debate in the media and suspicions would be thrown on the hard-right and neo-nazis and it would be going on for days.”

The former detective said that because the incident occurred at a Christian organisation few people in the media were asking questions about it.

“Christians in this country are so far down the list that we don’t warrant some sort of public statement from the police.” Priest said.

[naturalman1975]

I would not normally post something here from a source such as 'Out in Perth' but they are - oddly - one of the few media organisations here in Australia who seem to be questioning the official police position that the explosion at the Australian Christian Lobby headquarters was not because of 'ideological, political, or religious' motives - a conclusion that the police seem to have arrived at extremely quickly.