"Not a word from senior lefties with the beheaded thing and...

"Not a word from senior lefties with the beheaded thing and mashouffs kid ....not a word from
hanson young or milne.....
And they look like walking in at the next election.
TOO LATE NOW"

blooreeler you make a good point about the Leftie leaders not wanting to speak out and offend the west Sydney Muslim voters.
Would you believe however the Attorney-General in Rudd's gov't and Gillard's ALP/Greens gov't, Robert McClelland, did speak out about Australia's terror threats and convictions just prior to the 10 year anniversary of the 9/11 Attack in this article below from al-Arabiya.
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/09/06/165600.html

Four major terror plots foiled in Australia since 9/11 attacks
Tuesday, 06 September 2011

Australia has disrupted four major terror plots since the 9/11 attacks on the United States, Attorney-General Robert McClelland said Tuesday as he warned of a continued threat posed by home-grown extremists.

Australia has been spared an attack in the decade since the surprise assaults on the US which killed close to 3,000, but McClelland said the danger of a home-grown terror incident was ever present.

“Most Australians think that if we were to be attacked, it would probably be perpetrated by a foreign operative,” he wrote in an opinion article marking the upcoming tenth anniversary of the world-changing events in the US.

“In fact, in the decade since 9/11, there have been four major terrorist plots disrupted in Australia. Thirty-seven of 38 people prosecuted for these acts have been Australian citizens, with 21 of the 38 born in Australia."

McClelland did not detail the cases but they are believed to include that of Algerian-born Muslim cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika who led a Melbourne terror cell which plotted to kill thousands.

In Sydney, five Muslim men were convicted in 2009 of conspiring to commit a terror attack using guns and explosives on an unknown target to protest against Australia's part in the “war on terror.”

And in 2006, Pakistan-born architect and Australian citizen Faheem Khalid Lodhi was jailed after being found guilty of planning to blow up Sydney's electricity grid.

More recently, three Australians with links to al-Shabab extremists in Somalia were accused of conspiring to attack Sydney’s Holsworthy army base.

McClelland said that more than 100 Australians have been killed in terror attacks overseas since the shocking events in the United States a decade ago, many in the 2002 bomb blasts at a Bali nightclub strip.

But he added advice from security experts was that the greatest threat to Australia was from home-grown extremism.

“While the death of Osama bin Laden was an important milestone in the international fight against terrorism, we need to realize that al-Qaeda’s ability to adapt and change its leadership endures,” McClelland said.

“That’s why the government focus is both on strong counter-terrorism law enforcement measures but also on reducing the risk of home-grown terrorism,” he added, stating close work with the community could weaken the appeal of radical ideology.


I believe Gillard sacked McClelland as Attorney general soon after this "outburst" of honesty and then he retired quietly without seeking fanfare as our highly respected, highest ranking Law Officers are wont to do.
Another standout example of highly regarded Australian Attorneys-General who served us extremely well for 7 years then retired quietly would be Daryl Williams who served admirably in the Howard gov't .
An example of a poorly regarded, abysmal Attorneys General would be Nicola Roxon who contrastingly retired with full fanfare.

Re McClelland: as part of a cabinet reshuffle in December 2011 he was moved to oversee the portfolio of emergency management and housing. In a further cabinet reshuffle in February 2012 following Rudd's leadership challenge, McClelland was shunted to the backbench.