Australian law enforcement and intelligence agencies are to be reviewed, in the Albanese government’s latest response in the wake of the Bondi tragedy.

But Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is still resisting calls for a national royal commission.

Albanese said in a statement after a meeting of cabinet’s national security committee that the review would be done by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. It will be led by Dennis Richardson, a former secretary of the defence and foreign affairs departments, as well as a former head of ASIO.

There have been questions about the adequacy of ASIO’s performance. It checked out Naveed Akram – the younger of the father and son gunmen – in 2019, because of his radical contacts, but did not later keep tabs on him.

Albanese said the review would “examine whether federal........

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