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‘It starts with me’: Albanese’s vow to Bondi families · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from the Australian. I'm Christinamio with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Prime Minister Anthony Alberizi acknowledged the Bondi
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  Speaker 1: terror attack was not random in his opening address to
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  Speaker 1: an emergency sitting of the Federal Parliament on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Jewish Australians were the target. As we offer our love,
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  Speaker 2: sympathy and solidarity to everyone bearing the weight of trauma
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  Speaker 2: and loss, we make it clear to every Jewish Australian
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  Speaker 2: you are not alone. All Australians stand with you.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen innocent people were killed and dozens more were injured
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  Speaker 1: when two men, father and son, Sajud and Navide Akram,
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  Speaker 1: allegedly opened fire on a Harneker by the Sea event
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  Speaker 1: on December fourteenth.
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  Speaker 3: We must channel our anger into meaningful action to ensure
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  Speaker 3: an atrocity such as this can never happen again, and
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  Speaker 3: that responsibility starts with me, as Australia's thirty first Prime Minister.
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  Speaker 1: Victims loved ones sat in the public gallery for the
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  Speaker 1: condolence motion and met with the PM following the formalities,
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  Speaker 1: marking the first time Albanesi has come face to face
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  Speaker 1: with some of the grieving families. Opposition leader Susan Lee
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  Speaker 1: said the families were owed an apology for the delay
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  Speaker 1: in establishing a Federal Royal Commission into Anti Semitism and
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  Speaker 1: Social cohesion.
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  Speaker 4: For too long, many in our society, especially in positions
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  Speaker 4: of authority, have failed to act decisively. It should not
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  Speaker 4: have taken the murder of fifteen people for us to
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  Speaker 4: open our eyes to the dangers of anti Semitism in Australia.
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  Speaker 1: Labour's most senior Jewish MP, Mark Dreyfuss, broke down in
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  Speaker 1: tears as he named the fifteen victims of the attack,
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  Speaker 1: which was allegedly motivated by extremist Islamic ideology.
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  Speaker 5: Each one it was a life full of meaning people
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  Speaker 5: who were loved, who contributed to their communities, who shaped
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  Speaker 5: the lives of those around them in quiet, lasting and
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  Speaker 5: meaningful ways.
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  Speaker 1: Jewish Coalition MP Julian Lisa identified three key groups driving
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  Speaker 1: the rise in antisemitism in Australia Neo Nazis, radical Islamists
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  Speaker 1: and the cultural left.
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  Speaker 6: BONDI represents a moment of choice. Will we stay in
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  Speaker 6: the political cul de sac that we've been in for
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  Speaker 6: over eight hundred days, or will we tackle the sources
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  Speaker 6: and causes of antisemitism in this country. When our leaders
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  Speaker 6: continue to treat antisemitism and violence against Jews as a
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  Speaker 6: political problem to manage, rather than the moral and cultural
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  Speaker 6: problem that it is. When our leaders drag their heels
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  Speaker 6: or deal with the issues with priority, alacrity and zealous determination.
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  Speaker 1: The Parliament will debate the governments significantly reworked gun control
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  Speaker 1: and hate speech laws in the coming days. After its
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  Speaker 1: proposed Omnibius Bill was abandoned. British and European leaders have
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  Speaker 1: furiously rebuked tariff threats made by Donald Trump and reaffirmed
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  Speaker 1: their solidarity with Denmark as the U s President escalates
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  Speaker 1: his efforts to take control of Greenland. Trump said in
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  Speaker 1: a social media post on Sunday he would impose additional
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  Speaker 1: ten percent tariffs on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands,
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  Speaker 1: Finland and Great Britain if he was not allowed to
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  Speaker 1: buy the Danish territory. He says the US needs to
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  Speaker 1: acquire Greenland for national security reasons, but the European Nations
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  Speaker 1: said in a joint statement quote, tariff threats undermine transatlantic
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  Speaker 1: relations and risk a dangerous downward spiral UK Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Sir Keir Starmer will give an emergency address on Monday
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  Speaker 1: local time after telling Trump in a phone call his
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  Speaker 1: threatened tariffs were wrong. Support for One Nation has skyrocketed,
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  Speaker 1: with the party surpassing the Coalition for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in news poll history. That's according to a survey conducted
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  Speaker 1: exclusively for The Australian last week. Core support for Pauline
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  Speaker 1: Hanson's One Nation has jumped seven points to twenty two percent,
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  Speaker 1: while the Coalition fell to a new record low of
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  Speaker 1: twenty one percent. Newly minted One Nation member Barnaby Joyce
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  Speaker 1: said he's humbled by the result but acknowledged there's still
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  Speaker 1: work to do.
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  Speaker 7: And so the work is still in front of us.
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  Speaker 7: But there is a change in politics. It's not just
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  Speaker 7: happening in Australia. It's happening across the globe. People want
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  Speaker 7: it to be more decisive, they want it to be clearer.
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  Speaker 7: The change is not coming the changes here.
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  Speaker 1: Labour also took a four point hit as voters grapple
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  Speaker 1: with the government's flat footed response to the Bondi Beach
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  Speaker 1: terror attack and an expenses scandal that dominated the final
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  Speaker 1: parliamentary sitting weeks of twenty twenty five, The Prime Minister's
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  Speaker 1: approval rating is now on par with this time last year,
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  Speaker 1: when the post COVID cost of living crisis was at
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  Speaker 1: its height. The Australian's Political editor, Jeff Chambers says Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Albanezi and Susan Lee have a tough road ahead to
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  Speaker 1: reassure voters. Check out those stories and analysis live right
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  Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot au and come
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  Speaker 1: back to the front first thing in the morning for
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  Speaker 1: a huge moment in the British courts, Prince Harry versus
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  Speaker 1: the Press