00:00Yesterday's terror attack on the Jewish community and on all Australians is a day burned in the
00:08nation's soul. It was the darkest day since the Port Arthur massacre in April 1996 and Australians
00:17will remember where they were on the day of the Bondi massacre and they will remember the feelings
00:23of overwhelming disbelief and shock that they felt. Those who saw the murderous massacre firsthand
00:34and lost loved ones will be changed forever. Children who were there to celebrate their faith
00:41and their community have learned too young what it means to feel unsafe. Bondi beach is a symbol
00:51of Australia. Its beautiful waters, its golden sands, its birthright for so many Australians for
01:02generations. This is a desecration against us all. These events will profoundly test and change our
01:11nation. I want to acknowledge the swift and courageous response of the New South Wales Police and the
01:19paramedics because it's their immediate action that steered people away from danger that helped save
01:26lives and that kept people feeling as safe as they possibly could in this horrific attack.
01:35I want to recognise those who stepped into danger to save lives, the everyday heroes. We don't yet know who
01:43they all are, but we have heard the stories, who did extraordinary things on the most extraordinary of days,
01:53brave civilians. They are indeed heroes because it's those acts of mateship and love that will always
02:00define us as Australians. I share the nation's revulsion and horror as we continue to hear testimonials
02:11from last night. But many Australians this morning are feeling a growing sense of bewilderment.
02:19And yes, there is anger. There is palpable anger. Because anti-Semitism in Australia has been left to fester.
02:30Many of us who've been close to the Jewish Australians, as I have been for the last two years,
02:35have heard story after story of hideous anti-Semitism. We've seen a clear failure to keep Jewish Australians
02:47safe. We've seen a clear lack of leadership in keeping Jewish Australians safe. We have a government that sees
02:59anti-Semitism as a problem to be managed, not evil that needs to be eradicated.
03:10Everything must change from today in how governments respond.
03:17Criminal acts have been perpetrated and repeated publicly over the last two years.
03:24We've seen public landmarks turned into symbols of anti-Semitic hate. We've seen campuses
03:35occupied and Jewish students made to feel afraid. We've seen the homes of Jewish Australians vandalised
03:44and we've seen Jewish child care centres targeted. We've seen synagogues firebombed,
03:52orchestrated by foreign terrorist states. Every single day for the last two years,
04:00the lives of Jewish Australians have been made harder by this rising tide of anti-Semitism.
04:10Armed guards greeting four-year-olds on their way into kindergarten.
04:16Mothers who've read something hateful online and decided, just today I'm not going to send my child
04:23to school. University students having to put up with chants like, from the river to the sea. Let's be
04:32clear, this is a chant that calls for the explicit destruction of the Jewish state and universities
04:41did not act appropriately. And Jewish Australians who've told me that they're returning to Israel
04:51because they feel safer there than they do here. Recently I spoke with the Prime Minister's
05:00Special Envoy for Anti-Semitism, Gillian Siegel, and I touched base again with her this morning.
05:05And I remember that conversation from a few months ago and the sense I had as I walked out of the room
05:12that it's not about if but when this would happen. In February this year, AGO Director Mike Burgess
05:23warned that anti-Semitism is the biggest threat to loss of life in Australia.
05:29Now the Prime Minister has told Jewish Australians that he will do whatever it takes to deal with
05:35anti-Semitism. Now he must start today by committing to implementing all of the recommendations
05:45in his anti-Semitism envoy, Gillian Siegel's report. We stand ready to support any meaningful action
05:54that the Albanese government can take to properly fund the security that Jewish Australians have been
06:01asking for at their schools, their places of worship and in their community. But it's about much more
06:09than security. If laws need to be passed we should recall the parliament and undertake to do exactly that.
06:18I stand with all Australians in this moment of shared grief and I give this undertaking to the Australian
06:26people. We will do whatever it takes to force the strongest possible action from governments to keep
06:37Australians safe, to keep Jewish Australians safe and to secure justice.
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