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"There needs to be an independent inquiry in relation to this matter. An eminent Australian from the criminal intelligence and law enforcement intelligence community needs to be appointed to conduct this review - because it can't happen again."
That's Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, demanding an investigation earlier this year into when the Prime Minister was told about a suspicious caravan in the Sydney suburb of Dural.
"I don't think there's been a true and honest accounting of what's happened here. But if the Prime Minister of our country is not across what was potentially be the biggest terrorist attack in our country, and the public found out about it, I think that this is an absolute abrogation of his responsibility."
Australian Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Krissy Barrett has since revealed authorities believe organised crime figures who wanted leverage to improve their own position were allegedly behind the caravan's discovery, rather than ideologically motivated actors.
"Essentially a criminal con job... The caravan was never going to cause a mass casualty event, but instead was concocted by individuals who wanted to cause fear for personal benefit."
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says these revelations mean the Opposition Leader should say sorry for the remarks he made while the investigation was taking place.
He says Mr Dutton was trying to score political points - and stoke fear - rather than seeking the facts of the situation.
"I don't expect the leader of the opposition will apologise because I don't think he has any level of self-awareness and I don't think he cares. But when you are dealing with a national security issue, where he ran the script that organised crime wanted him to run, then yes he has a hell of a lot to apologise for. He should have received a briefing from the Australian Federal Police. That would have given him a level of caution. He should have listened to the director-general of ASIO who was publicly saying that we needed to lower the temperature. Peter Dutton decided to put self-promotion ahead of national security and there's no excuse for that."
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns is also on the record as having spoken strongly about the caravan's discovery - like this remark in January.
"This is the discovery of a potential mass casualty event. There's only one way of calling it out and that is terrorism. That is what we are very worried about. This would strike terror into the community, particularly the Jewish community, and it must be met with the full resources of the government."
But Mr Burke says the Opposition Leader's position is different to the premier.
He says Chris Minns at least knew when to be diplomatic.
"There are different stages of the investigation. If you look at the points when we were publicly saying Peter Dutton should get a briefing, it's because if he had received that briefing he would have discovered the developments taking place.”
The Opposition Leader has rejected all of the Minister's accusations - including that he refused a briefing from law enforcement agencies on the caravan.
Mr Dutton says he stands by his remarks and his original position.
"I think what's obvious is that Tony Burke has been caught out lying today. And I think this is a massive own goal from Tony Burke, because if the Prime Minister had that knowledge he didn't publicly disclose it. If the premier of New South Wales had that knowledge when he was still saying this was a terrorist attack in the planning then we need an explanation in relation to that. So I think what's happening at the moment is you're seeing this beauty parade between Jim Chalmers and Tony Burke, because they anticipate that Anthony Albanese won't be the leader of the Labor Party for much longer at all."
But the Minister has maintained the Opposition Leader has regurgitated a narrative created by organised crime groups.
He says the incident has been used to pit Australians against each other - the impacts of which he has seen in his electorate which has a large Muslim population.
That's the fear of groups like the Jewish Council of Australia, which has put out a statement that says the incident shows the need to stop exploiting antisemitism.
Alex Ryvchin from the Executive Council of Australian Jewry meanwhile says the involvement of organised crime just makes the whole situation more complex and disturbing.
"We want to know what is going on in terms of the sheer volume and the scale of antisemitic incidents that are taking place in our society. We've heard from the ASIO director-general that antisemitic incidents are his number one priority... Synagogues have been burnt, childcare centres have been burnt, private homes have been targeted, with a ferocity of attack that we've never seen before in this country. And whether it's been done for financial gain or as part of an antisemitic movement, in either case I think it's equally chilling and equally terrifying."
