Out the front of Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, in Fairfield City in Sydney’s west, on Thursday afternoon there are almost no signs that NSW Police had declared a terrorism incident only a few days earlier.

A small group of men talking outside the Assyrian church where the attack happened, and a groundskeeper watering grass, are the only movement around the block. The tape surrounding the building isn’t police tape, but rather black and yellow that seems to be protecting newly laid turf. All around are houses, the streets are quiet, any inkling of the riot that followed the attack is well and truly gone.