Thanks barry.
This idiot had a long history of violent, terroristic type behavior. He had been and still was within the Aussie judicial system as a usual suspect for various serious crimes. And yet he wasn't on their terror watch list? And they waited 17 hours or so and took no proactive steps. He gets to kill two hostages before they have enough fukkking sense or guts to go in and get him or shoot him through the glass?
I rarely crirticize response measures until all of the details are in, but the Aussies are looking like the keystone cops in this one. Why give these guys intel, high tech weapons and training if they don't/can't/won't use them? Perhaps at the end of the day we will find out the delay was political in nature; that has happened in the US on many occassions as well.
They HAD to know this idiot would kill; he already had or was suspected of doing so as well as being fuelled by Islamic fervor. Some decision makers need to be replaced.