A post from Tammie Farrugia’s social media.Credit: TikTok

“We have identified links between certain jobs, which gives us some indication there is a level of co-ordination above those perpetrating the offences. But I’m not prepared to go into those details,” Hudson said.

He said of those charged, police had not identified any “specific ideology that would cause them to commit the acts that they’ve committed, and that indicates to us that they are being orchestrated in some manner”.

In Dural, Robert, who did not give his surname, said about 20 police from the terrorism squad “barged down the doors” of a home he owns on January 21. His daughter said the search warrant referenced the names Tammie Farrugia – a woman recently charged over an antisemitic attack in Woollahra on December 11 – and the 24-year-old’s partner, Scott Marshall. Farrugia has not been charged in relation to the explosives.

Farrugia had previously posted on TikTok last month seeking a caravan.

NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the secret investigation into an explosive-laden caravan had been compromised by leaks to the media, but Jewish leaders believe they should have been warned earlier because their security was under threat.

“The fact that this information is now in the public domain has compromised our investigation, and it’s been detrimental to some of the strategies we may have used,” Webb told reporters on Thursday morning.

Karen Webb criticised leaks on the police investigation of the explosives-laden caravan.

Karen Webb criticised leaks on the police investigation of the explosives-laden caravan.Credit: Nick Moir

“The third point I want to make is that whilst the explosive material was found in that caravan, there was no detonator,” she said.

Webb said the risk to the public was “mitigated very early on”. She said a number of search warrants executed by police had resulted in some individuals being charged for unrelated offences.

Another three incidents around the eastern suburbs were reported overnight, including graffiti near a Jewish school, which NSW Premier Chris Minns described as shameful.

“It tells you everything you need to know about how appalling these bastards are that they would rip apart a school on one of the first days of school with a racist, antisemitic attack,” he said.

Antisemitic graffiti at Maroubra on Tursday.

Antisemitic graffiti at Maroubra on Tursday.Credit: Rhett Wyman

Minns also backed NSW Police’s decision to keep the caravan tactics secret.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for the police to say, or the government to say, when a [counter- terrorism] inquiry begins, we’re going to issue a media release and have it in the public domain,” he said.

“If the police believe that covert means are the best way of locking up people who are responsible for these actions, that’s what needs to happen.”

Executive Council of Australian Jewry Council co-chief executive Peter Wertheim held a press conference on Thursday morning to say the institutions listed as possible targets in the caravan should have been notified of the danger.

“They’re the ones at risk, and they have a right to know if their security is threatened,” he said.

“The feelings in the Jewish community are not only one of understandable concern and anxiety because of the repeated nature of these attacks, but increasingly one of anger.”

“We need more action. We need firmer action. But above all, we need a change of attitude within the institutions of our society from which these hate ideologies have found a home, this witch’s brew of extremism, whether it’s at the political right or of the left or of a religious source.

Peter Wertheim, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, speaks to the media.

Peter Wertheim, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, speaks to the media.Credit: Rhett Wyman

“We need a change of attitude by our universities. We need a change of attitude by our writers’ festivals, our arts and culture centres, by social media platforms in fostering these hateful ideologies which result in violent actions in the name of freedom of expression.”

Liberal MP Julian Leeser – whose electorate includes Dural – has called for Minns and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to give more detail on the caravan filled with explosives.

“I think that the police need to allow the community to find out about these investigations at the earliest possible occasion and that’s a matter for judgment for the police and ultimately a responsibility of the premier,” he told ABC News.

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