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Finance minister says bomb threat reflects ongoing need to ‘take the temperature down’

Katy Gallagher, the federal finance minister, said the security incident at the prime minister’s residence was “very troubling”, echoing Albanese that the country needed to “take the temperature down”.

I can say that certainly, in my time in politics, I haven’t experienced some of the turbulence and some of the push against politicians at the moment. I think certainly the online world is alive and flourishing … and yeah, it’s difficult.