00:00Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, apologized on Monday to the Jewish community and the nation over last week's mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach, which claimed 15 lives.
00:15Emotions were raw and a lot of people in the community are hurting and angry.
00:20And some of that anger was directed towards me and I understand that. As Prime Minister, I feel the weight of responsibility for an atrocity that happened whilst I'm Prime Minister.
00:33And I'm sorry for what the Jewish community and our nation as a whole has experienced.
00:38The government will work every day to protect Jewish Australians, to protect the fundamental right as Australians that they have to be proud of who they are,
00:48to practice their faith, to educate their children and to engage in Australian society in the fullest way possible.
00:56The Prime Minister has faced mounting criticism from opponents who say his government has not done enough to curb a rise in anti-Semitism.
01:04He was booed by sections of the crowd during a memorial event in Bondi on Sunday, attended by tens of thousands one week after the tragedy.
01:13Albanese's government has stressed that it has consistently denounced anti-Semitism, highlighting legislation passed over the past two years to criminalize hate speech and doxing.
01:29Earlier this year, the government also expelled Iran's ambassador after accusing Tehran of directing anti-Semitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.
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