00:00Late last night, our laws to crack down on hate speech and take sensible action on firearms
00:07passed the Parliament.
00:08And I want to thank all members and senators who voted for this legislation.
00:13I want to acknowledge all who participated in the debate as well.
00:18We recalled Parliament as soon as we could to achieve this.
00:21I stood in this courtyard last month and said we would develop laws that were as effective
00:28and strong as possible.
00:29I said that those laws would include the adoption of the recommendations of the Special Envoy
00:36on Anti-Semitism and the exposure draft that we released on 12 January did just that.
00:44It wasn't possible to get through all of the recommendations of Gillian Siegel's report
00:50that would have included a racial vilification provision.
00:55What we were able to do, though, was to get, with the support of the Greens, the strengthening
01:00of firearms laws and with the support of the Liberals and some crossbenchers as well, support
01:09for strengthening the provisions on hate speech.
01:14Not as strong as we originally put forward, but no doubt the strongest hate laws that have
01:21ever been in place in Australia have now been achieved.
01:26That is a good thing.
01:28In Bondi, the terrorists had hate in their hearts, but they had guns in their hands.
01:33We said we wanted to deal with that with urgency and with unity, and we acted to deliver both.
01:40And there have been advances on both.
01:43My government listens.
01:44We work through problems methodically.
01:46And we find solutions.
01:49And we have done that.
01:51We have prioritised national unity and nation healing.
01:56And we want to make sure that light triumphs over darkness.
02:00It's now an opportunity for the Parliament to unite and to say that this is a good thing,
02:10that Parliament has determined this.
02:13We engaged very deliberately and collaboratively with the members and leaders of the Jewish
02:20community on developing the draft legislation, just as we did on developing the terms of reference
02:26for the Royal Commission.
02:28And I thank those members, such as Peter Wertheim and Daniel Aguillon and others, who spent many
02:36hours before the release of the draft legislation engaging.
02:43We engaged with other faith leaders as well, and engaged with legal experts.
02:48I thank the Attorney-General's Department and the Department of Home Affairs, who normally
02:55wouldn't have been working each and every day between Christmas and New Year, but they
02:59did so in order to get this done.
03:03Australia was born out of an instinct to unify.
03:06That's what we did 125 years ago, when the Federation came together.
03:12We need to come together, and tomorrow will be another day in which I want to see national
03:18unity.
03:20The day of mourning will be an opportunity for all Australians to stand with those who
03:26are grieving, those who lost loved ones, family members and members of the Bondi-Habad community,
03:34but others as well.
03:36There will be formal events which take place tomorrow.
03:40But there are also opportunities for every Australian to participate, by putting a candle
03:47in a window sill or at the front of your house, by flags flying at half-mast, by recognising
03:56the installations and the lighting that will occur as well.
04:01I want to particularly pay tribute to the spiritual leader of the Habad community, Rabbi Ullman,
04:10who has shown great leadership, as have other rabbis in the community as well, over what has
04:17been a really difficult period.
04:20They have comforted their community.
04:24They've reached out and engaged in constructive ways.
04:26There's a lot of practical things that have had to be done.
04:31The medivacking of Geffen Bitom, one of the heroes of Bondi, to Israel.
04:38I visited him in hospital with community leaders just before he was medivacked out.
04:48The work that has been done has been quite extraordinary, and I pay tribute to them.
04:54This period has been one of the most difficult in our nation's history, coming to terms with
05:02this.
05:03We continue to take action required to keep Australians safe.
05:08But about 15 hours.
05:10The station has always been to celebrate is to be remembered in life, and, you know, their
05:13energy in order for billions of yearsектор sometimes quite is able to use a nearly
05:16given event and cost health care for a growing business.
05:17They only have only several people in this country who are avere items such as
05:19the prioritär of the community.
05:20And I think that they have lived in the country today.
05:22Where do you make sense that they increase their opportunities?
05:22There's a lot of different experiences that they've banished.
05:23But for example, we haven't asked.
05:24So Opera Nothing can say.
05:27There's a lot of people here because we haven't made
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