When Urgency Replaces Judgment Less than a month after the Bondi terror attacks, the Australian Parliament was confronted with a sweeping omnibus bill, amending a vast array of criminal, migration, customs, firearms, and administrative laws. The speed of this legislative response was striking, not just for its scope, but for the political reversal that preceded it. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, the opposition was unequivocal. The government was accused of moving too slowly, of failing to recall Parliament immediately, and of not acting with sufficient urgency in the face of national shock and grief. Calls for decisive action