Turnbull finally reacts to immigration debate

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Better late than never, from Fairfax:

The Prime Minister told Melbourne radio 3AW security arrangements at large public events will be considered. “We’ll certainly have to rethink the way we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians gather,” Mr Turnbull said.

“We already have security measures in place, but the example of Nice … if there are going to be large numbers of people in a place which is accessible by vehicles, then we have to think about what we do physically to prevent a vehicle getting access as this truck did for over 2 kilometres.

“There is a lot to be done in terms of design,” he said.

…”What we are seeing at the moment is people being radicalised, or adopting murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly,” Mr Turnbull said.

“You have people that are not on the counter-terrorism radar screen who then often as a result of mental illness will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.”

Nicely put and quite right. Let’s hope that’s the end of it. Alas I doubt it.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.