NSW premier Chris Minns says a ‘major and serious criminal investigation’ is under way after incident at Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley, which Anthony Albanese described as ‘extremely concerning’

Anthony Albanese has pleaded for unity after a terrorist attack at a western Sydney church where a bishop and a priest were stabbed, and a subsequent riot in which police officers were attacked.

The prime minister held a joint press conference with police and security chiefs in Canberra on Tuesday morning, hours after New South Wales declared as a terrorist attack the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel at a service at the Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley just after 7pm on Monday.

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