Albanese orders assessment into AFP and Asio after Bondi assault
Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese says he has requested former Asio boss Dennis Richardson and the Division of the Prime Minister and Cupboard to steer a assessment into Australia’s federal regulation enforcement and intelligence businesses.
He introduced the transfer amid rising requires a royal fee into final week’s Bondi shootings.
In a press release, Albanese stated:
The Division of Prime Minister and Cupboard will look at whether or not federal regulation enforcement and intelligence businesses have the appropriate powers, constructions, processes and sharing preparations in place to maintain Australians protected within the wake of the horrific antisemitic Bondi Seashore terrorist assault.
The ISIS-inspired atrocity final Sunday reinforces the quickly altering safety surroundings in our nation. Our safety businesses have to be in the very best place to reply.
The assessment will likely be led by Dennis Richardson – a former Secretary of the Division of Defence, former Secretary of the Division of International Affairs and Commerce, and former Intelligence Chief.
The assessment will construct on the work of the Impartial Intelligence Assessment, performed by Richard Maude and Heather Smith.
The assessment will likely be offered to the federal government by the tip of April 2026 and will likely be made publicly out there.
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Anti-immigration rallies have ‘no place in Australia’, Albanese says
Anthony Albanese has referred to as on demonstrators planning to rally in Sydney and Melbourne in the present day to cancel their actions.
Anti-immigration rallies have been deliberate for the nation’s two largest cities, in defiance of the NSW authorities’s warnings that gatherings on Sunday can be unhelpful so quickly after the Bondi terror assaults.
Nationals defector and One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce is headlined to talk at an anti-immigration occasion in Sydney.
The prime minister stated Sunday needs to be about remembering the victims of the Bondi taking pictures.
Terrorists have sought to divide this nation however it is a time to face united – notably on this nationwide day of reflection.
There are organised rallies looking for to sow division within the aftermath of final Sunday’s antisemitic terrorist assault, they usually don’t have any place in Australia.
They need to not go forward and folks shouldn’t attend them.
Littleproud says PM avoiding royal fee into Bondi assault
The Nationals chief, David Littleproud, says Anthony Albanese hasn’t but referred to as a royal fee into the Bondi assaults as a result of he’s afraid of political embarrassment.
Chatting with Sky Information on Sunday morning, Littleproud stated an unbiased inquiry needs to be held.
And there was a litany of failures right here for 2 and a half years.
The warning indicators have been there … however we should always look ourselves within the eye.
We must always have a look at the failings of choices made at a political degree, at intelligence ranges. And lots of of those businesses are at a federal degree.
The Nationals chief acknowledged that any inquiry could establish failures made by former Coalition governments, saying he would welcome the scrutiny.
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The variety of flowers left at a memorial to these killed and injured in the course of the Bondi assault have grown in an outpouring of grief and assist on Sunday.
Listed here are some photographs of the scene:
Caitlin Cassidy
Bondi reopens however stays a web site of mourning
There’s a unusual duality at Bondi every week after the phobia occasion. The life-savers have returned to the seaside and the police scene has been lifted, however Bondi’s promenade continues to be crammed with bouquets and tributes to the 15 victims.
Indicators with QR codes to donation hyperlinks cling from phone poles and fencing. On the footbridge the place one of many alleged shooters stood, firing on the Hanukah occasion, crowds of individuals proceed to face and mourn.
An indication has been hung there by Waverley council which reads:
That is the positioning of a horrible tragedy for the local people. Please be respectful and contemplate others when transferring by way of.
Chalk has been offered on the backside of the footbridge and folks have written tributes and drawn footage on the cement. “To Matilda bee,” one reads. “Love peace,” says one other.
Police warn of ‘important’ response to unauthorised Sydney anti-immigration rally
New South Wales police are urging members of the general public to not attend an unauthorised anti-immigration rally deliberate for Sunday afternoon.
In a press release, police stated a Kind 1 was submitted by the protest organiser on Wednesday however it was not supported by police and “subsequent negotiations have been unsuccessful”.
In consequence, the organiser has not obtained authorisation for the meeting beneath Half 4 of the Abstract Offences Act 1988.
With out this authorisation, the occasion will not be legally protected as an authorised meeting and people who select to attend could also be answerable for obstruction and illegal meeting offences.
The assertion added that “this isn’t a time for public gatherings that will heighten pressure or create extra dangers to neighborhood security” and that individuals in Sunday’s protests can anticipate “important policing response to any large-scale public gatherings at time this”.
Former Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce, who stop to affix One Nation, has been marketed as a speaker on the gathering.
Albanese orders assessment into AFP and Asio after Bondi assault
Tom McIlroy
Anthony Albanese says he has requested former Asio boss Dennis Richardson and the Division of the Prime Minister and Cupboard to steer a assessment into Australia’s federal regulation enforcement and intelligence businesses.
He introduced the transfer amid rising requires a royal fee into final week’s Bondi shootings.
In a press release, Albanese stated:
The Division of Prime Minister and Cupboard will look at whether or not federal regulation enforcement and intelligence businesses have the appropriate powers, constructions, processes and sharing preparations in place to maintain Australians protected within the wake of the horrific antisemitic Bondi Seashore terrorist assault.
The ISIS-inspired atrocity final Sunday reinforces the quickly altering safety surroundings in our nation. Our safety businesses have to be in the very best place to reply.
The assessment will likely be led by Dennis Richardson – a former Secretary of the Division of Defence, former Secretary of the Division of International Affairs and Commerce, and former Intelligence Chief.
The assessment will construct on the work of the Impartial Intelligence Assessment, performed by Richard Maude and Heather Smith.
The assessment will likely be offered to the federal government by the tip of April 2026 and will likely be made publicly out there.
Caitlin Cassidy
The Nationwide Council for Jewish Girls Australia vigil at Bondi Pavilion has concluded with a rendition of the nationwide anthem.
As music performed, attenders with flowers have been requested so as to add them to an ever-growing pile of bouquets on the foot of the pavilion, which have began to yellow and wilt with age. Many laid them down with tears, hugging their family and friends members.
The gang have began to disperse, however some mourners proceed to face in reflection. Balloons within the form of a bee, hung as much as pay tribute to 10-year-old Matilda, whose center identify was Bee, are flying on the memorial’s gates.
Caitlin Cassidy
Mostyn stated she attended the Anzac Memorial in Hyde Park on Saturday to commemorate the a hundred and tenth anniversary of the withdrawal of troopers from Anzac Cove.
They’d executed their work in Gallipoli as a way to present peace for the world. They have been led by a masterful normal, John Monash, one other Jewish man who led our nation with army distinction.
After we take into consideration the unspeakable, ghastly acts of terror perpetrated right here, I believe what it was like to face within the shores on Anzac Day, and the way unspeakable it could’ve been to think about on the shores of Bondi Seashore, we’d have 1000 surf Life Savers [on Saturday] in an act of commemoration.”
Mostyn stated Australia had powerfully remembered the Anzac story however “we’ve got to study different historical past”, together with these of Australia’s Holocaust survivors.
Yesterday I used to be shocked to study a 94-year-old Jewish girl who’s been coming to the Anzac commemoration yearly rang the organisers to know whether or not she would nonetheless be welcome as a Jewish girl … In fact she was welcome, each Jew on this nation … you might be a part of the belonging story and the success of this nation … That is now a nationwide undertaking. Mitzvahs, good deeds, care, kindness to one another.
Governor normal addresses Bondi vigil, requires ‘care, kindness and respect’
Caitlin Cassidy
The governor normal, Sam Mostyn, says she’s going to make it her “nationwide undertaking” to advertise care, kindness and respect for the Jewish neighborhood and all Australians following the wake of the Bondi terror assault.
Addressing the Nationwide Council for Jewish Girls Australia vigil in entrance of the Bondi Pavilion, Mostyn stated she heard in regards to the occasion on the radio and felt compelled to attend. She was sporting white, as is a lot of the crowd, as requested by the organisers to unfold mild.
We should take that ahead … Once I took on this position 16 months in the past, I stated what needs to be on the coronary heart of my workplace – which is past politics, past coverage – can be care, kindness and respect … I used to be calling on the phrases of a former governor normal, a Jewish governor normal, Sir Zelman Cowen, who was wanted at a unique time for Australia and wanted to be a peacemaker.
Mostyn stated the workplace she represented “have to be the one which displays the sunshine and shade of the nation again to the nation”.
To interpret the temper of the nation in these moments, after which to behave with all of you in these moments of therapeutic and unity, for us to not be divided, however to come back collectively … to indicate that we perceive what which means for us as a nation. Care, kindness, respect, compassion, everybody belonging on this nation.
Tom McIlroy
Charities and non-profits signal letter of assist for Jewish neighborhood and rejecting ‘concern, polarisation, and disinformation’
Dozens of civil society teams across the nation have signed an open letter of assist to Australia’s Jewish neighborhood within the wake of the Bondi assaults, providing sympathy and like to bereaved households and victims, in addition to Jews across the nation.
The complete letter is beneath. It’s signed by teams together with the Alannah & Madeline Basis, Amnesty, Oxfam, Local weather 200, the NSW Council for Civil Liberties and lots of others.
It reads:
Antisemitism (anti-Jewish racism) shouldn’t have any place in Australia. We must always all really feel and be protected in our identities – free to apply our faiths, dwell our cultures, have fun with household, and be in neighborhood with each other. Everybody has a proper to dwell in peace and security, regardless of their perception or background.
Within the aftermath of this surprising violence, we keep in mind our shared humanity. We honour the recollections of these killed. We have fun the unity, braveness, and care being proven by hundreds of thousands of individuals throughout Australia as we mourn collectively.
We have now seen what occurs when a neighborhood is singled out and scapegoated based mostly on their identification, ethnicity, race or faith; and we reject efforts to create additional division by way of concern, polarisation, and disinformation.
We come collectively and echo the phrases of the NSW Religion Affairs Council that “We is not going to let hatred and violence divide us. Throughout all our cultures and faiths, we are going to stand united in sympathy, compassion and solidarity.”
We’re resolute in our collective dedication to defend everybody’s rights to security, tradition and religion, and to construct a peaceable society.
We decide to deepening our understanding of how anti-Jewish racism arises, as a way to higher establish and stop it from being dedicated in opposition to the Australian Jewish neighborhood ever once more.
We stand with the Australian Jewish neighborhood, in love and solidarity.
Tom McIlroy
Sussan Ley visits Ahmed al-Ahmed in hospital
The opposition chief, Sussan Ley, and Coalition frontbencher Julian Leeser have met with Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed in hospital this morning.
He was shot after disarming one of many gunmen at Bondi final week and has had a protracted line of official guests, together with the NSW premier, Chris Minns, and the prime minister, Anthony Albanese.
Ley will be a part of commemorations at Bondi tonight.
Caitlin Cassidy
‘It’s exhausting to think about a stronger neighborhood’, Russian Jewish neighborhood chief tells vigil
Subsequent to talk is Anna Maylis, the Zionist Federation of Australia’s Kangarusski neighborhood coordinator.
She says 10-year-old Matilda, who was killed every week in the past within the taking pictures, was a pupil of hers and got here to all of her occasions for the Russian Jewish neighborhood since she was three years previous.
Maylis attended an occasion with Matilda and her household earlier that day, earlier than they headed to the Hanukah occasion at Bondi seaside, as did lots of the victims.
She says in Bondi, her Russian accent is “very regular”, however the Jewish Russians are a small neighborhood, and all very shut. They often come collectively at Sydney’s solely Russian restaurant, or at Bondi, however now they “meet at funerals on daily basis”.
There’s not a household in our neighborhood that isn’t personally linked to the victims, many people have been right here …
Most of us have skilled antisemitism in its ugliest kind … we lived by way of it. However what did this do to us? It made us robust. It’s exhausting to think about a stronger neighborhood … The entire of Australia is mourning. Thanks Australia, we want you.
Crowds in white collect regardless of the warmth at Bondi beachside vigil
Caitlin Cassidy
Lynda Ben-Menashe, president of the Nationwide Council of Jewish Girls Australia, is the primary to talk on the vigil at Bondi Pavilion.
The positioning is packed regardless of the warmth. Ben-Menashe says like lots of the victims from the taking pictures, her household was born in Odesa and fled to Australia to flee persecution.
I’ve been a proud Australian citizen all my life … I’ve been inundated with messages of condolence and assist … an outpouring of affection from allies, associates and likewise strangers. In the present day is a testomony to the decency of Australian individuals. This circle of affection and assist is the circle we should enlarge.
She notably remembers a message she obtained from a girl in Israel whose kibbutz was invaded on 7 October 2023. She says 62 of the girl’s associates, household and neighbours have been killed.
She understands the hazard we face on this nation, wraps her arms round us, and tells us to rebuild.
Bondi Pavilion floral tributes to be eliminated on Monday
A floral memorial left by neighborhood members to honour the reminiscence of these killed in the course of the Bondi assaults will likely be eliminated on Monday for historic preservation.
Notices asserting the choice have been posted to lamp-posts across the Bondi Pavilion on Sunday.
The Sydney Jewish Museum and the Australian Jewish Historic Society will gather the supplies to protect them.
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Caitlin Cassidy
Crowds collect at Bondi Pavilion to mark one week since taking pictures
A crowd of a whole lot have gathered at Bondi Pavilion in white to mark every week because the terror assault took the lives of 15 individuals.
Formal proceedings have began with a rendition of Someplace Over the Rainbow, a music that was composed by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg, who have been Jewish, adopted by a minute of silence.
It’s a sweltering day in Sydney, and days out from Christmas there would often be a festive temper within the air. As an alternative, screens are being arrange on the promenade for a memorial this night, and police helicopters circle overhead.
Amongst these to have gathered at Bondi Pavilion is the minister for social companies, Tanya Plibersek, the governor normal, Sam Mostyn, and unbiased member for Kooyong, Monique Ryan. Warringah MP Zali Stegall and former Goldstein MP Zoe Daniel are additionally in attendance.
Assist proven to Jewish neighborhood has been ‘touching’, rabbi says
Efforts to indicate solidarity with the Jewish neighborhood have been welcomed whilst individuals work by way of their grief, neighborhood leaders say.
Rabbi Eli Feldman, chief of the Newtown synagogue, stated the neighborhood was nonetheless “in shock” and “devastated” every week on from the Bondi assault.
You already know, it’s not simply numbers, it’s individuals. Individuals have died. Individuals are struggling. Individuals are in hospital. A superb good friend of mine is in hospital. Had a surgical procedure yesterday. His father was executed – he couldn’t even go to the funeral.
Feldman stated the assist has been proven to this point has been “touching” with political leaders and, leaders from different faiths contacting him in solidarity with the Jewish neighborhood, and flowers being left outdoors the rabbi’s synagogue in Newtown.
It’s so touching and we admire it a lot. And I believe that virtually, what each Australian can do, along with displaying their assist, can also be to assist these widows and orphans and assist these households.
On efforts to handle antisemitism and anti-Jewish hatred in the neighborhood, Feldman stated “nothing occurs in a vacuum and nothing occurs by itself” and that “we’ve got to have a look at – the place is the ideology coming from? How is being inculcated inside younger individuals in our nation?”
Finally, we’re all created within the picture of God and that’s what each single human being is. And I believe that if individuals are educated within the constructive facet, they’ll be much less inclined for the depraved ideologies.
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The households of these killed and injured in the course of the Bondi assault every week in the past are nonetheless grappling with the enormity of what has taken place, neighborhood leaders say.
Chatting with ABC Information this morning, Alyx Ryvchin from the Govt Council of Australian Jewry stated he had been spending time with the households.
They’re in a bewildered state, they’re nonetheless in shock, they don’t know what to do with themselves.
He stated there was “a number of anger” in the neighborhood at current.
We’re biking by way of the assorted feelings, the assorted phases, and there’s an actual feeling of getting been let down and betrayed; the neighborhood needs solutions and we would like change.
A key piece of Port Arthur-era gun reform stays unfinished. Might it have helped forestall the Bondi assault?
A nationwide firearms register, which might monitor weapons throughout the nation in actual time, was a precedence for regulation enforcement and gun management advocates after the 1996 Port Athur bloodbath.
However virtually 30 years later, it stays unfinished.
The Australian Federal Police Affiliation president, Alex Caruana, informed Guardian Australia this week {that a} strong nationwide firearms database would have allowed New South Wales police to raised assess the danger posed by the Bondi gunmen forward of Sunday’s terror assault.
Sajid Akram, who was shot lifeless by police, held a firearm licence and owned six weapons, which he and his son Naveed allegedly used to open hearth on Jewish households celebrating Hanukah at Bondi seaside.
It was disclosed on Monday that Naveed, who has now been charged with 59 offences together with 15 counts of homicide, got here to the eye of the Australian Safety Intelligence Organisation (Asio) in October 2019 “on the idea of being related to others”.
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