Raf Epstein
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first heard May 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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7am · “It’s ugly. It’s messy”: Inside the plot to bring down the Victorian premier · 28 Jul 2026
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It just means everything, every card's being thrown up into the air.
Absolute pleasure as always, Ruby.
Well, he was denying reality in some ways.
The Royal Commission actually produced something really interesting, even in the interim report.
They've flooded the security agencies with money, but they've drained the coffers when it comes to counter-terrorism.
We're talking stonkingly large amounts of money.
This is both equally a coalition government thing and a Labor government thing, by the way.
Security agencies have gone from $56 billion to $73 billion.
That's an extraordinary increase.
The details we aren't allowed to know because they're the security agencies, but the spending on counterterrorism went down.
the Royal Commissioner says it's significantly declined.
The reason is the caliphate falls over, the ISIS caliphate at the end of the 2010s, and everyone goes, oh, China, everyone else, espionage.
So they shift a lot of the effort.
But that presents a real difficulty for a government.
Sure, some of it happened under the coalition.
They spent less on counterterrorism.
They downgraded the people inside the security infrastructure that keep an eye on this stuff.
That's a real weakness politically.
It also, if you're part of the community that endured the massacre in December, you're allowed to ask a legitimate question and say, oh, hang on, if you spent less on counter-terrorism, why?
Would it have made a difference?
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