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Despite deportation and detention attempts, could New Zealand have done more to prevent Friday's terror attack?

  • Written by Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology
Despite deportation and detention attempts, could New Zealand have done more to prevent Friday's terror attack?Fiona Goodall/Getty Images

New Zealand is fast-tracking changes to counter-terrorism laws in response to Friday’s terror attack, but several other laws are relevant in this case and further investigations must ask why they weren’t used to detain the attacker.

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