Minister for Indigenous Australians Malarndirri McCarthy says she has been meeting with the Indigenous community and elders in Perth in the wake of an alleged attempted terrorist act at an Invasion Day rally in Perth on January 26.

“We will continue to work through this with the community in Perth, because there are questions around what happens with the next gathering, and how can the next gathering be safe?

“Every Australian should feel safe, in particular when you want to protest against a particular policy or a particular government or an action. That’s what our country is built on … We want all Australians and especially First Nations people to know that they can do that,” she told ABC’s News Breakfast earlier this morning.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned the alleged terror attack after the charging of a 31-year-old man who allegedly threw a homemade bomb into a crowd of thousands of Invasion Day protesters in Perth’s CBD. The bomb failed to detonate.

Authorities have declared the attempted bombing a terrorist act.