Five years have passed since the Christchurch mosque terror attack, the country’s first ever terror attack, but it only took another two and a half years for another one to occur at a New Lynn supermarket.
A year ago, top security and intelligence officials revealed they had foiled three further terror threats.
So, five years on from our darkest day, how concerned should be about threats going forwards?
Today on The Front Page, Massey University distinguished professor Paul Spoonley joins to discuss his decades of research into this area.
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