Claire Kimball

That's because my mother had it and anyone, of course, who has motor neurone disease or a loved one with it, you know just how devastating it is.

So lots of thoughts to people who are involved in all of that.

When you look at the research, Macquarie University in Sydney is globally recognised for the work they do.

They have recently called for a national register of cases and for more funding.

And of course, Andrew, remember that it was that sort of focus on security services and what happened and how they were resourced was really behind Prime Minister Anthony Albanese really sort of taking his time, I guess, to announce that Royal Commission.

So it's in a lot of focus, this block of hearings and seeing what it will uncover afterwards.

In his opening, the council assisting the commissioner, a guy named Richard Lancaster, he said that 10 of the 15 victims were shot and killed within the first 30 seconds of the attack.

He said it was a surprise attack and neither police nor the intelligence agencies had the information pointing to any sort of imminent threat.

So that was really interesting.

There was also a lot of focus on Mike Burgess, who's the ASIO Director General.

Of course, when

The ASIO boss says anything publicly, it gets a lot of attention.

But he was giving evidence for an hour and a half yesterday.

What he said is that ASIO was stretched, but they had enough resources and funding.

He said that the funding they have is sufficient.

But he did talk about the agency pivoting from counterterrorism

to espionage and foreign interference.

So lots of questions about whether they had their eye on the ball.

Yeah, so two inquiries, which we'll get to in a second, but the one about the killing of the police officers, of course, that was Neil Thompson and Vadim Devort-Hattard.

They were shot dead by Desi Freeman in August 2025.