OPINION: The prime minister's announcement of a royal commission of inquiry into the Christchurch terror attack was inevitable. These are all valid questions that an inquiry needs to consider. MORNING REPORT/RNZ New Zealand is heading for a fresh debate on whether it needs tougher surveillance laws in the wake of the Christchurch terror attack. A royal commission into the massacre will investigate whether security agencies could or should have known more ahead of the shootings. Had they done so, the Christchurch attack may still have occurred, but the toll could have been much less.

Source: Stuff March 28, 2019 15:56 UTC