PM says Melbourne synagogue hearth despatched ‘shivers down the backbone of all Australians’
The PM has gone on to deal with a name into his look on ABC Radio earlier immediately, the place a caller apparently stated these incidents had been about Israel, not Jews.
Albanese stated the next:
That is about Jewish Australians. This does no matter trigger persons are purporting to advertise hurt. It has nothing to do with that. It’s simply an antisemitic assault in opposition to Jewish Australians.
That disgraceful act of burning of a synagogue despatched shivers down the backbone of all Australians. We’re a tolerant nation. We’re a rustic that’s based mostly upon respect for one another, and we are going to work with the entire authorities to ensure the perpetrators of those crimes, which is what they’re, are delivered to justice.
Key occasions
So the press convention with Albanese has simply wrapped up, and the questions roughly revolved across the identical subject: has the PM finished sufficient, and can he do extra, to fight antisemitism.
He listed a few of the steps taken by his authorities, together with the appointment of an antisemitism envoy and the assorted funding bulletins made beforehand.
In response to criticisms from the Coalition on the federal government’s response, Albanese stated:
I believe we have to search for unity on this. This isn’t a time for searching for distinction and for distinction.
Benita Kolovos
‘For too lengthy ladies’s ache has been ignored’: Allan ‘horrified’ by judgment in Bayer class motion lawsuit
The Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, was additionally requested in regards to the class motion lawsuit in opposition to pharmaceutical firm Bayer being thrown out by a Victorian decide yesterday.
The motion, introduced on by greater than 1,000 ladies with extreme unwanted side effects from an Essure contraceptive gadget, was knocked again by supreme court docket decide Andrew Keogh, who stated power pelvic ache and irregular uterine bleeding was frequent for a lot of ladies.
Requested what she made in regards to the remark from the decide, Allan stated she was “horrified”:
I’ve received plenty of ideas about this judgment, as you’ll be able to most likely effectively think about. I used to be personally fairly horrified by that, by these feedback, and that is precisely why, precisely why we’re having an inquiry into ladies’s ache proper now in Victoria. As a result of for too lengthy, ladies’s ache, respectable ache, actual ache, extreme ache, has been ignored. It’s been dismissed. It’s been dismissed as one thing that’s simply ladies’s issues. Simply put up with it, go and have a Panadol and lie down. We’ve received to place today behind us.
Australians should not tolerate ‘intimidation’, unbiased MP Allegra Spender says
The member for Wentworth, Allegra Spender, has stepped up, and stated the assaults are “devastating”:
It’s devastating to this neighborhood. It’s completely heartbreaking, as a result of it’s meant to ship worry into the neighborhood. And once I speak to my broader neighborhood, and each Australian I’ve spoken to, they are saying: you realize what that’s, that isn’t us. You already know we don’t tolerate this form of behaviour.
And I believe that must be the message to the nation is, we is not going to tolerate this form of intimidation of Australians of their properties, in the neighborhood.
PM says Melbourne synagogue hearth despatched ‘shivers down the backbone of all Australians’
The PM has gone on to deal with a name into his look on ABC Radio earlier immediately, the place a caller apparently stated these incidents had been about Israel, not Jews.
Albanese stated the next:
That is about Jewish Australians. This does no matter trigger persons are purporting to advertise hurt. It has nothing to do with that. It’s simply an antisemitic assault in opposition to Jewish Australians.
That disgraceful act of burning of a synagogue despatched shivers down the backbone of all Australians. We’re a tolerant nation. We’re a rustic that’s based mostly upon respect for one another, and we are going to work with the entire authorities to ensure the perpetrators of those crimes, which is what they’re, are delivered to justice.
Albanese pronounces $8m in funding for Sydney Jewish Museum
Albanese has continued, introduced $8m in funding for a redevelopment of the Sydney Jewish Museum, saying this “isn’t a promise, that is funding”.
He stated the latest spate of antisemitic incidents had been “geared toward selling worry”.
I unequivocally condemn these shameful acts of violence aimed on the Jewish neighborhood. They’re acts that are geared toward selling worry in the neighborhood, and that by any definition, is what terrorism is about. And we have to ensure that we be taught the teachings of historical past which this museum reveals us, and to say, by no means once more, but in addition to work throughout the board.
Immediately, I’m asserting on behalf of the federal government, $8.5m {dollars} to redevelop the Sydney Jewish Museum. That is funding that has been agreed beforehand by our funds course of and is included within the mid 12 months financial forecast that can come down subsequent week.
Antisemitism ‘wants to finish’: Albanese
Anthony Albanese has stepped as much as communicate at a press convention on the Sydney Jewish Museum, alongside surroundings minister Tanya Plibersek and the unbiased member for Wentworth, Allegra Spender.
Albanese has begun by saying that antisemitism “wants to finish” and is “evil”.
We want an finish to antisemitism. It’s evil. It diminishes us as a nation when we’ve occasions similar to we noticed right here once more, in a single day this newest assault, only a matter of a few kilometres from right here in Woolhara, and to see since then as effectively, there’s been graffiti someplace in Sydney as effectively.
That’s utterly abhorrent to who we’re as Australian
Benita Kolovos
Allan: neighborhood should play a job in condemning antisemitism
She stated whereas the federal government had given police further powers and extra funding for safety outdoors synagogues, in addition to introducing laws to strengthen anti-vilification safety, the neighborhood additionally had a accountability to “name out” and “condemn” antisemitism. Allan stated:
We have to stay targeted and united as a neighborhood. Group, as I do, resoundly condemns this form of hateful, evil antisemitism that we’re seeing far an excessive amount of of. And there’s a accountability for all of us to name it out and condemn it.
And there’s additionally a accountability and a possibility to achieve out to the Jewish neighborhood to supply them assist, like I’ve been doing, significantly since that terror assault on the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne final Friday, additional to the work of Victoria police. Victoria police are persevering with to have an elevated police presence round locations of significance for the Jewish neighborhood in Melbourne.
Benita Kolovos
‘Evil’: Victorian premier condemns anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney’s east
Earlier immediately, the Victorian premier, Jacinta Allan, held a press convention in her citizens of Bendigo, about two hours north of Melbourne.
She was requested in regards to the anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney’s east, simply days after an arson assault at a synagogue in Melbourne. Allan condemned the assault:
I completely condemn one other vile evil assault that we’ve seen in Sydney in a single day. It’s evil, it’s antisemitic, and it’s simply so heartbreaking to see. Whether or not it’s throughout Australia or throughout the globe, we’ve seen an increase in antisemitism, significantly because the terrorist invasion of October 7 final 12 months, and it must be completely condemned at each flip.
By way of the work that we’re doing right here in Victoria to assist each the Jewish neighborhood, but in addition to communities of all faiths, we’re contemplating ways in which we are able to strengthen the legal guidelines to guard locations of workshop. The Jewish neighborhood, each devoted neighborhood, ought to have the appropriate to go to their place of worship and really feel they will accomplish that safely and securely. That’s why we’re how we are able to strengthen the legal guidelines.
Andrew Messenger
Transport minister Brent Mickelberg has refused to rule out once more imposing a gag on parliament debating points.
All 50 LNP members voted yesterday to ban MPs introducing any movement or regulation looking for to debate abortion for the remainder of the time period.
Mickelberg was requested whether or not the social gathering would gag the parliament on different points it had dominated out in opposition, similar to nuclear energy.
“I’m not going to entertain any hypothetical questions,” Mickelberg stated, at a press convention on Wednesday.
Group should unite to sentence antisemitism: Labor MP Anne Aly
Labor MP Anne Aly says she is “extremely involved about rising antisemitism”.
Talking to reporters in Brisbane, Aly stated there was no place for antisemitism “in Australia or wherever on the earth”.
What we’d like proper now’s for the neighborhood to return collectively in its condemnation of antisemitism, and in social concord and in social cohesion.
I ask everyone to think about this: what you need for your self, to dwell in security, to dwell in concord and to dwell peacefully – I’d hope you’d need that for each different Australian.
Aly added that the native Jewish neighborhood in her Perth citizens “really feel unsafe”.
That breaks my coronary heart as a result of I don’t consider that any Australian, no matter your religion, no matter your background, no matter who you might be, ought to really feel unsafe on this nation.
I come from a minority religion myself and my religion neighborhood has at occasions skilled durations of feeling unsafe as effectively.
And so I’ll lengthen my hand of friendship and solidarity to the Jewish neighborhood in Australia.
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Extra offensive graffiti noticed in Sydney, police affirm
Extra offensive graffiti has been noticed on the partitions of a building website in Arncliffe, NSW police affirm, after anti-Israel graffiti in Woollahra in a single day.
Pictures in media reports confirmed the Arncliffe graffiti repeated antisemitic tropes and referenced Adolf Hitler.
Police travelling on the Princes Freeway about 11.30am on Monday noticed the “offensive graffiti on the partitions of a building website”, based on a NSW police assertion. Officers attended and commenced inquiries into circumstances surrounding the incident.
Immediately, buildings in Woollahra had been vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti and a automobile was set on hearth. NSW police stated the automobile set on hearth didn’t belong to a resident, and was seemingly stolen and had been pushed to Woollahra by the perpetrators, who had then torched it to destroy proof.
Watch: Jelena Dokic speaks on the Nationwide Press Membership
Earlier immediately, former tennis participant Jelena Dokic instructed the Nationwide Press Membership about her expertise with nervousness, melancholy, PTSD and an consuming dysfunction and stated that in sport, “silence was golden” – and this silence might result in loss of life.
As a sufferer of home violence herself, Dokic argued that having an open dialog about stigmatised subjects was an antidote to this. You possibly can watch a few of what she stated under:
Greens senator says authorities childcare announcement ‘dangling one other carrot after future election’
Greens senator and early childhood schooling spokesperson, Steph Hodgins-Could, stated the childcare measures introduced by the federal government immediately are “a half measure that received’t be applied till after the election.”
At a press convention in Melbourne earlier, Hodgins-Could stated the prime minister had acknowledged the exercise check is conserving households out of labor and kids out of schooling – however “as a substitute of abolishing it, they’re tinkering across the edges and adjusting it to use to solely two days every week”.
Households throughout the nation are in dire want of assist to make sure they will pay the payments, they will hold a roof over their heads, and so they can get their youngsters into these essential early years of schooling.
The federal government might abolish the exercise check immediately … and so they might make early childhood schooling genuinely common. Immediately’s announcement has didn’t ship that. It’s dangling one other carrot after a future election, quite than taking motion immediately.
Caitlin Cassidy
College of Canberra pronounces ‘voluntary separation program’
The College of Canberra has introduced a “voluntary separation program” as the most recent cost-cutting measure to hit the financially strapped establishment.
The appearing vice-chancellor of UC, Prof Michelle Lincoln, has introduced the organisational change, to happen throughout 5 schools. It comes forward of former Labor chief Invoice Shorten taking the reins in February.
Lincoln stated the introduction of this system was a part of the college’s “strategic method to rebalancing our funds and charting our manner in direction of a self-sustaining place”.
This is a chance for tutorial employees to submit an expression of curiosity to resign from the college in return for a separation fee based mostly on their years of steady service.
Workers can have till 17 January to think about their choices, alongside an “organisational change session course of” which can think about instances the place “staffing is taken into account extra to operational want”.
The college has flagged greater than 200 skilled and tutorial positions will probably be faraway from the establishment throughout 2024 and into 2025.
Which cafe did Tony Abbott and JD Vance meet at? We’ve got the reply!
The very intelligent Nick Miller – typically working away behind-the-scenes on this weblog – has put his web sleuthing hat on and found out which cafe Tony Abbott met JD Vance in.
As we flagged earlier, the previous PM met incoming US vice-president Vance at an unknown location – all we are able to see in the image shared to X is a purple and blue door, purple doormat with a half-visible brand, and a tiny (fairy? mouse?) door within the backside proper nook.
Taking these info, and sifting by all of the cafes in Vance’s neighbourhood, we are able to safely say the pair visited Del Ray cafe – with images matching up the brand and the tiny door.
The cafe has a dedication to natural meals and sustainable or recycled supplies, and isn’t too distant from Jim Morrison’s childhood residence.
The neighbourhood of Del Rey itself is a “pretty left-leaning neighborhood with Delight flags and different rainbow decorations in lots of native companies on the principle street”, according to Business Insider.
So, the extra you realize! It appears we’ve our own Rainbolt right here at Guardian Australia.
Peter Hannam
Bowen lays out a few of his Qs for the Coalition’s (perhaps) soon-to-be-released nuclear prices
The vitality minister, Chris Bowen, has joined the throng of these eagerly awaiting the Coalition’s much-anticipated costings for its plan to construct seven nuclear energy stations a while after 2035. (It’s been half a 12 months because the broader outlines of the scheme were unveiled.)
There are a bunch of questions, not least having some stab on the price for taxpayers and, after all, particulars of how the Coalition (and its seemingly modeller, Frontier Economics) got here to its figures.
At a media occasion of 1 (Guardian Australia was solo), Bowen listed a number of of his questions past a greenback determine, such because the capability in gigawatts, the proportion of vitality wants the vegetation will meet, and the way a lot (additional) energy will coal must generate whereas we await the reactors to modify on (and when?).
And, after all, that might imply much more emissions for a sector which has really been blazing what decarbonisation is underneath manner (let’s depart apart the land sector’s contested function). For customers (and taxpayers), there will even be prices. “What would be the affect of all this on payments and the way a lot new transmission will probably be required?” Bowen requested.
We had a number of different questions too, together with whether or not what low cost price the Coalition may use and over what timeframe? (See here why “net present value” makes a distinction to obvious dimension of the invoice, even when it’s nominal.)
A key query, too, will probably be how a lot jamming nuclear into the grid would require photo voltaic and wind vitality to be “curtailed” (or “wasted”), and the way which may have an effect on current funding selections from the non-public sector.
The necessity for seemingly a whole bunch of billions of {dollars} of presidency spending was “horrible” for future budgets, and for providers that can have to be lower, Bowen stated, including non-public traders would face new uncertainties.
Nicely, grasp on, why would I am going and put money into Australia once I’m competing in opposition to subsidised authorities investments in nuclear, which isn’t per a renewable grid?
Let’s see what number of of those questions get answered (amongst many).
