Story by Dean Foley\/Australian Correspondent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Questions are being asked after claims an explosive device was handled following a Perth Invasion Day rally, with debate focusing on how institutions respond when the story doesn\u2019t fit a neat script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officials urged calm, noting there are \u201cprocesses\u201d in place. The public asked what the process is. The public was told the process is \u201cbeing processed\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A spokesperson said policing priorities are set by risk assessments. \u201cWe assess risk carefully\u201d they said. \u201cFirst we assess whether the incident will become a headline. Then we assess whether that headline will inconvenience us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Community members said they want safety and accountability, not theatrics. In response, a new interagency unit was announced: the Rapid Incident Narrative Taskforce<\/strong>, tasked with ensuring every event is categorised within six hours as either \u201cisolated\u201d<\/strong>, \u201ccomplex\u201d<\/strong>or \u201cplease stop asking questions\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The state also launched a public information campaign featuring helpful advice, including: Report everything<\/strong>, Trust the system<\/strong> and Do not expect the system to move at the speed of concern<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A senior official confirmed the agency is \u201ccommitted to learning\u201d, and has scheduled a formal learning opportunity for late next financial year, immediately after budget season and the annual \u201cWe\u2019re Doing Our Best\u201d luncheon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story by Dean Foley\/Australian Correspondent. Questions are being asked after claims an explosive device was handled following a Perth Invasion Day rally, with debate focusing on how institutions respond when the story doesn\u2019t fit a neat script. Officials urged calm, noting there are \u201cprocesses\u201d in place. The public asked what the process is. The public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[327,712,357,308],"coauthors":[707],"class_list":{"0":"post-10267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-2","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-invasion-day","10":"tag-perth","11":"tag-police"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/australia-perth.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10269,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions\/10269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}