Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Kristy Barrett says illicit drug users in Australia are partly responsible for the deaths of two people shot in Sydney, whom she describes as “innocent.” The claim is reported across multiple outlets including Sydney’s The Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne’s The Age, and Brisbane’s Brisbane Times.
Barrett’s comments link the alleged harm from serious offending to the broader impacts of illicit drug use. The outlets focus on her attribution of “part” responsibility to people who use illicit drugs, rather than on detailed particulars of the investigations or the circumstances of the shootings. The reporting is consistent in describing the commissioner’s position and in identifying two innocent shooting deaths in Sydney as the reference point for her remarks.
While the outlets present the same core allegation, they primarily differ only in publication location and framing rather than in the underlying substance. None of the summaries provided here offer additional figures, legal findings, or direct quotations beyond the overall claim attributed to Barrett.
