‘Cannot wait until December’: Dennis Richardson calls for urgency over Bondi attack failures after quitting inquiry

Dennis Richardson had said he quit the royal commission because he decided he was ‘surplus to requirements’ and the work he was able to contribute could not justify the $5,500 a day he was being paid. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Improvements to public safety and intelligence in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack “cannot wait until December”, former spy chief Dennis Richardson has said just days after he sensationally quit the antisemitism royal commission.

“You cannot leave matters that go to public safety till the end of the year, particularly when you have a small section of the community living in such fear,” Richardson told an ABC podcast.