Unfortunately that was far from the case. The Royal Commission’s report depicts the counter-terrorism effort across government agencies -- SIS, Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), Police -- as lacking clear leadership and, despite the layers of bureaucracy and reports, ill-equipped and under-resourced to gather intelligence and identify new threats. The picture presented of the agencies as they operated before the terrorist attack in Christchurch is one of blinkered organisations, focused almost entirely on the threat of Islamic extremism, and acting without much co-ordination or urgency to address non-Islamic terrorism threats, even when they some were highlighted. It appears also that there was little input from politicians and almost no effort to make the public aware of how they could contribute to mitigating the risk of domestic terrorism.