But the outcome,dubbed the Australian Firearms Information Network,has not yet lived up to expectations because of the patchwork data across jurisdictions and lack of real-time detail available to police.

The Australian Federal Police Association praised the fresh action,with president Alex Caruana telling this masthead loopholes allowing the purchase of ammunition for prohibited weapons were among other issues needing to be addressed.

As Queensland police,including its specialist counter-terrorism team,prepare a report for the coroner on the December event and what may have contributed to it,Albanese said ASIO director general Mike Burgess had also given a “high-level briefing” to national cabinet.

This included talk about the rise of right-wing extremism,“so-called sovereign citizens” and other matters,Albanese said,following discussions about the attack among leaders on Thursday night.

“The catastrophic,premeditated,calculated murder that occurred there on the basis of a warped ideology ... requires us to do what we can to keep the citizens we all represent safe,” he responded to a question about federalterrorism law reforms under way and whether he thought the label applied to the attack.

“We know that the threat is real and tragically,we’ve seen the consequences of it.”

An ASIO spokesperson said the agency regularly provided political leaders and ministers with sensitive intelligence briefings which would be inappropriate to elaborate on.

Experts had previouslyquestioned the decision of Queensland police to shy away from applying the label of terrorism to the killing. Burgessspoke last year about growing concern at ASIO over online radicalisation fuelled by the pandemic.

Existing long before the pandemic,both theFBI in the United States andNSW police have deemed sovereign citizens “domestic terrorists” or a “potential terrorist threat”.