If you can, containing that threat or the offender is the best way to buy time and reduce the chance of them getting to more people,
The brain is designed for survival. No amount of convincing is going to talk you out of panic,
The first thing we always say is stay calm and look for cover because putting a barrier between you and the attacker is the simplest way to reduce some of that threat,
The risk is potentially losing that knife to the offender and maybe he didn’t have one in the first place but now he’s got yours,
You will be met by the full force of the law if there’s any attempt for tit-for-tat violence,
Also in panic, we forget to do the simple things – that could be calling police, finding somewhere to hide,
It’s really, really important for people not to put themselves down that I couldn’t keep calm,
If you’ve got an aggressive person, you might be able to defuse the situation but if you’ve got someone that’s wielding a knife, you’re certainly going to go into fight or flight mode,
I've been in a shopping centre and I've caught people stealing and I can't do anything, I can just watch them walk,
People are definitely a bit more uneasy,
Everyone is saying it could have been them, it could have been any of us,
Muhammad Taha, he confronted this guy, the perpetrator, Joel Cauchi, on Saturday. And it just shows extraordinary courage,
If the crimes committed over the past days had been committed with easily accessible high powered firearms, there is no doubt the number of victims would be far greater,
At least the cleaner's got a broom, but a security guard won't be carrying anything except a radio,
We've been actively considering whether to expand the public spaces that police can wand in to include shopping centres,
It's really important to bear in mind that the two incidents are very, very different. They have very different circumstances,
It’s very early so people are still very shocked, very frightened, anxious. Families, of course, are just starting to grieve for their loved ones,
Most misogynists and most incels don't commit violence. But certainly, there is evidence globally of a connection between these sorts of people and an encouragement of violence against women,
The investigation will be looking at how could this (have been) prevented? It's going to be very difficult when you have a random act like this,
There's certainly some tension in Western Sydney and that's raising concerns in itself, but faith communities have come up very strongly and said that violence is never acceptable … Something that we do need to focus on is not so much how these incidents occurred, but why,