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Andrew Hastie & Rita Panahi (Sky News resident ranter) weaponise the #BondiBeachTerrorAttack tragedy — but they ignore the facts they can’t spin Andrew Hastie on Rita Panahi’s X feed using it to launch a political attack on Labor, claiming the government failed to screen entrants. Here’s the reality: the father, Sajid Akram, arrived on a student visa in 1998 and transitioned to a partner visa in 2001 — both under the Howard Liberal/National Coalition government. That’s decades ago. The current government had nothing to do with his legal residency. Yet #AndrewHastie rants about “who we let into the country” and “signing up to Australian values,” and Panahi declares “This is what a real leader looks like”. It’s fear, grief, and murder weaponised for political point-scoring. Let’s be clear: real leadership isn’t pointing fingers at a government that had no involvement in a decades-old visa decision by the LNP. Real leadership is: Supporting communities under threat Coordinating with law enforcement and intelligence Calmly guiding a fearful nation Acting on evidence, not fear Using murder and terror to push a xenophobic political agenda is not leadership. It’s opportunism. And in this case, it’s also profoundly hypocritical. Andrew Hastie is no leader, he's just a Scott Morrison with different hair. Rita, stop screaming, you're scaring the cats.