Cabinet Ministers will today consider law changes following Friday's terror attack.
Ahamed Aathill Mohamed Samsudeen was shot dead by police on Friday after stabbing six people inside Countdown LynnMall - a seventh person was also injured.
Three people remain in a critical but stable condition in intensive care at Auckland Hospital.
A counter-terrorism expert says authorities should be given greater powers to keep those planning terror attacks away from the public, without the need to prosecute them of a crime.
Massey University's Dr John Battersby told political reporter Charlie Dreaver the current laws aren't fit for purpose and the current legislation going through Parliament doesn't go far enough.
