00:01Well, we welcome the report and there's lots in it, including the five recommendations
00:07that we haven't been briefed on yet.
00:09But you have to remember that this was a Royal Commission that the Prime Minister never
00:13wanted to have.
00:14And it's not surprising he didn't want to have it, given some of its findings.
00:18It found that the National Security Committee of Cabinet was not match fit.
00:23It found that we needed a full-time, not a part-time counter-terrorism coordinator.
00:27It found that while the terrorism threat level went up, the funding went down.
00:32And it found that the response was so shambolic that they convened the wrong committee.
00:36They convened a policy committee rather than an operational committee.
00:39So there's lots to be done here and this is the first step.
00:42The public hearings of the Royal Commission commence on Monday and we will hear harrowing
00:47testimony from members of the Jewish community and from other Australians about how the country
00:52they've known and loved has changed as a result of the increase in anti-Semitism that we've
00:57seen over the last few years.
00:59Let me say a couple of things about the guns.
01:01Firstly, when I went, as I did every day in the week after Bondi and spoke to people at
01:07Bondi about the government's policy in relation to guns, people in the Jewish community, victims
01:15of the terrorist attacks and their families were insulted that the Prime Minister had gone
01:19to guns rather than dealing with anti-Semitism.
01:22There was no call on the Jewish community to deal with guns.
01:26We put forward a series of amendments to the government's legislation.
01:29They were not interested in dealing with those amendments.
01:32They had done their deal with the Greens.
01:34These are the government's laws.
01:35The recommendation is that they do further negotiations with the states.
01:39That's a matter for the government.
01:40That's a matter for the government.
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