(WA Today) West Australian Education Minister Tony Buti has addressed the police shooting death of a 16-year-old student from a prestigious public school in Perth’s south for the first time, distancing the teen’s stabbing attack from a letter penned by parents at the school raising concerns about radicalisation.
Speaking to ABC Perth on Tuesday morning, Buti confirmed he had received a letter from parents at Rossmoyne Senior High School, but clarified it was a mother and father who were concerned their child was being radicalised at school.
The letter, Buti said, had nothing to do with the boy who died, and the two should be treated as separate issues.
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