No official notes of caravan ‘terrorism plot’ meetings between NSW police and Premier’s Department, inquiry told

One meeting contained closely held information' and was pens-down', state parliament committee hears

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Top-level briefings about a potential terrorist plot involving a caravan of explosives were not documented, with some treated as pens-down" meetings, a New South Wales parliamentary committee has been told.

The second hearing of the inquiry examining the relationship between the Dural caravan discovery - subsequently determined to be a fake terrorism plot" - and the passing of hate speech and anti-protest laws in late February was held on Thursday.

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