CANBERRA, June 7 (Xinhua) -- Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will use an upcoming meeting of state and territory leaders to push for stricter parole measures, after a man with terror links who was out on bail killed one person and injured three police officers in a terror event in Melbourne earlier this week.
On Monday evening, 29-year-old Yacqub Khayre killed an apartment building receptionist and took a sex worker hostage, in an IS-claimed terror siege designed to draw counter-terror police into danger.
Khayre was released on bail late last year after he committed a violent burglary in 2012, but he was also charged with, and then acquitted of, involvement in a terror plot against an army barracks in Sydney in 2009.
Speaking on local radio on Wednesday, the prime minister said he would use Friday's Coalition of Australian Governments (COAG) meetings to urge the states to reconsider their parole laws in the wake of the terror siege.
"We want to make sure that people like Khayre are not released on parole. We're going to have a very serious discussion about this at COAG on Friday," Turnbull told Macquarie Radio.
