ABC to air Four Corners episode on Bondi terror attack despite preemptive criticism by Asio

Mourners pay their respects to the victims of the Bondi beach terror attack. ABC’s Four Corners episode exploring the attack and the role of intelligence agencies has prompted an unusual intervention from Asio. Photograph: Sarah Wilson/EPA

A Four Corners investigation into the secret lives of the alleged Bondi shooters in the lead-up to the nation’s worst terrorist attack will go to air on Monday night despite a preemptive claim by Asio that the episode contains “significant errors of fact”.

Path to Terror examines whether there were failures in intelligence and counter-terrorism leading up to the antisemitic massacre on Bondi beach on 14 December, and tracks the paths to radicalisation of father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram.