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Sharri | 18 December · Sharri

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Speaker 1: Why on Sky News.
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Speaker 2: This is Sharry Good Evening from the site of the
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Speaker 2: memorial here at Bondai Beach. Just four days ago, dozens
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Speaker 2: of Australian Jews were gunned down in a horrific terror attack.
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Speaker 2: Fifteen were murdered. The beautiful tributes from caring citizens are
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Speaker 2: growing in number, a reminder that Australians do care about
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Speaker 2: the tragedy of what happened here, and they care about
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Speaker 2: the gross injustice of a community that's been begging for
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Speaker 2: action on anti Semitism for two long years. Well tonight
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Speaker 2: here there's been beautiful song Waltzing Matilda, the Australian National anthem,
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Speaker 2: and the lighting of the fifth night of the Kannaka Candles.
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Speaker 2: I've got a major show coming up. The extraordinary courage
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Speaker 2: of a fourteen year old girl who came out of
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Speaker 2: her place at the Bondaid terror attack to protect two
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Speaker 2: children whose mother had been shot. KaiA was then shot
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Speaker 2: while saving the lives of these little kids. She tells
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Speaker 2: her story in a powerful exclusive interview with me. Shortly
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Speaker 2: also tonight, a young paramedic shot during the attack tells
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Speaker 2: his story straight out of ICU. He sat down with
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Speaker 2: me from his hospital bed, also the growing anger from
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Speaker 2: his family who asked why hasn't Albineasy shown up? Plus
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Speaker 2: Angus Taylor, Rabbi Jossi Friedman and Hollywood actor Nate Bars
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Speaker 2: will be here live in Bondi. But first let's go
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Speaker 2: to the breaking news tonight. Counter terror police have arrested
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Speaker 2: five men in Liverpool in Sydney's West this afternoon who
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Speaker 2: they suspect were on their way to Bondi. New Southod's
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Speaker 2: police received intelligence that the individuals had traveled from Melbourne
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Speaker 2: and we're intending to go to Bondi Beach heavily armed
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Speaker 2: tactical offices in camouflage uniforms and helmets. You can see
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Speaker 2: that on your screen. Made a dramatic arrest which has
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Speaker 2: been captured on mobile phone footage and you're looking at
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Speaker 2: that now now. Confidential sources tell me that police took
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Speaker 2: this intelligence seriously given the climate in the wake of
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Speaker 2: the terror attack here on Sunday. It's unclear what the
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Speaker 2: intention of the men was in traveling to Bondai, but
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Speaker 2: it is understood to have required a strong response from police.
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Speaker 2: Now New Southeast Police haven't commented publicly on this, other
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Speaker 2: than to say it's an ongoing operation and we'll keep
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Speaker 2: you updated as new information comes to light. Now families
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Speaker 2: are victims shot in Sunday's massacre are slamming the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister for failing to visit a single victim in hospital.
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Speaker 2: Albanezi visited the hero who took down a gunman on Monday,
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Speaker 2: akhmedal Ahmed, and that it s Vincent's hospital. Yesterday he
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Speaker 2: visited medical staff and frontline doctors and nurses. But it
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Speaker 2: since emerged that as far as we know, he hasn't
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Speaker 2: visited a single Jewish victim in hospital. On Sunday night,
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Speaker 2: forty two forty two were hospitalized with injuries and there
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Speaker 2: are still sixteen victims of the attack in hospital as
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Speaker 2: we speak. Many prominent Jewish community leaders have raised this
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Speaker 2: issue publicly in the past couple of days. Yankee Super
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Speaker 2: is one who was shot in the attack on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: I spoke with him today. It is hospital bed a
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Speaker 2: little while after he came out of ICU, and that
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Speaker 2: interview is coming up. But Brother Pinny Soup are slammed
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Speaker 2: Albanzi for failing to visit Jewish victims in hospital.
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Speaker 3: No, we haven't heard anything from the government, and especially
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Speaker 3: not from Melbourneesy, I don't think any of the victims,
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Speaker 3: the Jewish victims from this horrific attack, have been visited
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Speaker 3: by the Prime Minister, and we know why because the
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Speaker 3: Prome Minister is afraid are being confronted.
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Speaker 2: There are important questions that he raises, and we asked
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Speaker 2: alber Esi whether he'd attended and visited any Jewish victims
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Speaker 2: in hospitals. I have first put that question in last
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Speaker 2: night and we haven't had a response to our requests
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Speaker 2: for comments. Albanizi also didn't attend. It's getting loud as
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Speaker 2: you can hear right now with beautiful Jewish singing in
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Speaker 2: the background. But Albanizi also didn't attend the funeral of
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Speaker 2: little Matilda today. You would think this would be extremely important.
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Speaker 2: She's the youngest ten year old victim of the massacre.
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Speaker 2: Just a little girl gone down moments after playing with
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Speaker 2: bubbles and enjoying the festival on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Makes video of me for a minute, and I'll think.
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Speaker 2: At her funeral, Rabbi Ullman said that Matilda's murder was
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Speaker 2: as painful as if it were our own daughter that
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Speaker 2: was taken from us, and he described her as a
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Speaker 2: gentle soul who brought light to everyone around her. She
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Speaker 2: was remembered as a little ray of sunshine, a kind, compassionate,
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Speaker 2: vibrant ten year old who loved animals, dancing with her
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Speaker 2: sister and spreading joy wherever she went.
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Speaker 5: We have to continue right now.
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Speaker 1: We have to grieve.
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Speaker 5: This a sleeve. Cook's time to cry with all of
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Speaker 5: the belief, with all of our intellectualizing it, nothing will help.
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Speaker 5: The sorrow is still Greek to bear it. But ultimately
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Speaker 5: we have to go on, and this is the only
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Speaker 5: way to respect. Those are what they can wear from us.
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Speaker 2: Premier Chris Means also spoke beautifully.
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Speaker 6: She bore the name Matilda to honor this great land.
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Speaker 6: Australia's heardened spirit forever hand in hand. Now angels gather softly.
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Speaker 6: Their wings are silk and shroud, and Heaven holds her closely.
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Speaker 1: Far above the cloud.
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Speaker 6: Her spirit, like a swagman's, will never fade away. She's
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Speaker 6: waltzing with the angels where love will always stay. Those
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Speaker 6: sorrow fills the campfire and tears the night have found
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Speaker 6: Matilda's name now honored in every sacred ground.
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Speaker 2: But Albanisi wasn't there. The youngest victim of the worst
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Speaker 2: terror attack in Australia's history that took place on his watch.
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Speaker 2: Chris Mins was there, the Governor General and the Federal
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Speaker 2: Opposition leader Susan Lee, they all took the time to attend. Well,
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Speaker 2: as you might remember, Matilda's family told me last night
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Speaker 2: that they believed her daughter might still be alive if
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Speaker 2: Albanisi had acted on anti Semitism.
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Speaker 7: I don't know, I don't know even what to say.
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Speaker 7: It's it's a nightmare. They failed. They failed my daughter, Yes,
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Speaker 7: it's right, and everyone who who was there, they failed,
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Speaker 7: every victim.
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Speaker 2: Well, all of this comes as Albanie. He finally today
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Speaker 2: announced new laws to address anti Semitism, but many are
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Speaker 2: saying why did fifteen people have to die for him
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Speaker 2: to do this? And actually even that wasn't enough for
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Speaker 2: him to act. The murder of Jewish Australians was not enough,
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Speaker 2: not even a ten year old girl. The Prime Minister
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Speaker 2: had to be pushed and attacked and criticized, including by
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Speaker 2: Josh Fridenberg, for three days before he finally today called
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Speaker 2: a press conference focusing on anti semitism and not gun crime.
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Speaker 2: But it shouldn't have taken this. So here's what he announced.
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Speaker 8: It includes a new aggravated hate speech offense for preachers
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Speaker 8: and leaders who promote violence, along with increased penalties and
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Speaker 8: making hate and aggravating factor in sentencing for online threats.
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Speaker 8: A new regime will be developed to list organizations promoting hate,
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Speaker 8: along with a new offense of advocating racial supremacy.
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Speaker 2: The Executive Council of Australian Jury said the measures appeared
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Speaker 2: to reflect recommendations that have been repeatedly made over the
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Speaker 2: last two years, and they include four recommendations from our
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Speaker 2: Sky News Antisemitism summit back in February. At the conclusion
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Speaker 2: of our summit, we called for an inquiry into anti
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Speaker 2: semitism at Australian University's action on hate, preachers, action on
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Speaker 2: social media and blocking people entering Australia if they're anti Semitic.
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Speaker 2: So these recommendations, these four areas from our anti Semitism
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Speaker 2: summit back in February, and it's a summit we only
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Speaker 2: held because there was no national leadership on this crisis,
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Speaker 2: so we took the initiative. Yet Albanezy Tony Burke and
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Speaker 2: the rest of his government refused to act. Now he
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Speaker 2: could have done all of this and more back in
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Speaker 2: February when we suggested it, so again, why did it
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Speaker 2: take fifteen murders and a national outcry before the Prime
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Speaker 2: Minister chose to implement these four areas. But there is
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Speaker 2: one major concern about the new laws. Albanese said there'd
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Speaker 2: be tough action on hate preachers and hate speech as
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Speaker 2: it related to the promotion of violence. The promotion of
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Speaker 2: violence have a.
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Speaker 9: Look aggravated hate speech offense for preachers and leaders who
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Speaker 9: promote violence. Increase penalties for hate speech promoting violence.
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Speaker 2: But here's the major concern. Hate preachers are becoming too
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Speaker 2: smart to utter words that overtly promote violence, and that's
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Speaker 2: why they haven't been captured under the current incitement to
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Speaker 2: violence laws. These laws are ineffective because promotion of violence
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Speaker 2: is a threshold, that's true high. We need promotion of
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Speaker 2: hatred laws that would capture the hate preachers. But you
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Speaker 2: have to ask how committed is alban easy to all
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Speaker 2: of this really, because just last night he stood on
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Speaker 2: the steps of Saint Mary's Cathedral at an interfaith celebration.
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Speaker 2: He was photographed beside Shaike Shady Usselman, president of the
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Speaker 2: Australian Nationally Mum's Council and The Telegraph Tonight reports that
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Speaker 2: the head of Australia's peak Islamic body Regarded, recorded a
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Speaker 2: podcast with a British activist who called the mass slaughter
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Speaker 2: of Israeli citizens on October seven a lie and said
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Speaker 2: Hermas took hostages to negotiate more freedoms and his organization
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Speaker 2: has been handed twenty five million dollars of taxpay funded grants. Well,
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Speaker 2: this Calm says, I can now reveal more information about
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Speaker 2: the failures leading up to the Kannacher event here on Sunday,
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Speaker 2: I'm told that Jewish community and security groups had asked
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Speaker 2: for more police resourceing ahead of the Kannaka at the
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Speaker 2: Bay event, and this included static what's known as static
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Speaker 2: or on site police rather than only roaming police. And
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Speaker 2: the Jewish Security Group CESG had also previously asked to
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Speaker 2: be armed at events like this which were considered high risk.
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Speaker 2: Now I understand both of these requests were refused. I
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Speaker 2: put this to new Southe's police today and they told me,
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Speaker 2: and I quote here their response, we can't confirm what's
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Speaker 2: been reported to you because all circumstances surrounding what happened
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Speaker 2: at Bondai on Sunday are subject to a critical incident investigation,
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Speaker 2: but the Premiere, Chris Mins told me on Tuesday that
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Speaker 2: he is now considering allowing CSG to be armed. Do
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Speaker 2: you think there isn't an argument for the Jewish security
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Speaker 2: the CSG to have to have weapons so that they
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Speaker 2: could respond to serious threats like this.
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Speaker 6: Yes, I do now. CSG have been in discussions with
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Speaker 6: the new South Wales government in the last twenty four hours.
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Speaker 6: They're given permission at Jewish places of worship Jewish schools
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Speaker 6: to be armed on site. But we're in discussions with
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Speaker 6: them about events Jewish events in particular.
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Speaker 2: But this is all too little, too late. Now, this
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Speaker 2: all needs to be examined in a proper royal commission
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Speaker 2: that has to be held in the wake of the
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Speaker 2: worst terror attack in Australia's history. There shouldn't even be
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Speaker 2: an argument about it. As Jeff Chambers writes in The Australian,
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Speaker 2: the failures of governments on anti Semitism must be investigated
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Speaker 2: by a dependent inquiry and one thing is for clear.
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Speaker 2: The Prime Minister needs to stop hiding Albanizi needs to
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Speaker 2: front up apologize for letting Jewish Australians down and take
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Speaker 2: personal responsibility for the devastating tragedy that took place right here,
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Speaker 2: and among those, he should apologize to Little Matilda's devastated parents.
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Speaker 2: Ohia is the most extraordinary fourteen year old girl I
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Speaker 2: think I've ever met. In the middle of the Bondai
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Speaker 2: terror attack, she made a decision that saved lives. Kaya
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Speaker 2: saw a mother had been shot badly so and was
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Speaker 2: begging someone to take to save her children. Whia, just fourteen,
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Speaker 2: came out from her hiding spot and shielded two little
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Speaker 2: children aged under five. She was then shot, and yet
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Speaker 2: she still kept protecting them. She's now recovering from her
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Speaker 2: injuries and she agreed. Well. She even wanted to share
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Speaker 2: her story, and I sat down with her this afternoon. Kaya,
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Speaker 2: you just got out of hospital. You've still got the
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Speaker 2: hospital wristband even.
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Speaker 10: Look.
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Speaker 2: Take me back to the kinnik A festival on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: What were you doing when the firing started?
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Speaker 10: So, me and my friend Aaliyah, we were in the
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Speaker 10: petting zoo, and actually it was two minutes before, like
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Speaker 10: after I went straight from the petting zoo after I
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Speaker 10: brought this necklace and we were in the petting zoo
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Speaker 10: and we heard the noises and I was like, what
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Speaker 10: is that and she was like, it's probably fireworks, and
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Speaker 10: I was like, but there's no fireworks in the daytime.
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Speaker 10: Like it seemed a bit strange until we figured it out,
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Speaker 10: because obviously it was everyone was screaming get down, get down,
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Speaker 10: you need to get down. So I was like, you
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Speaker 10: know what, this is what we got to do. We
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Speaker 10: got to get down and we have to stay calm
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Speaker 10: because us freaking out about the situation.
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Speaker 11: Is not going to make anything better.
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Speaker 10: So I was like, you know what, we have to
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Speaker 10: calm down everyone around us, and we have to make
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Speaker 10: sure that it's like we can make the best out
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Speaker 10: of this situation. So I ran under the bench. I
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Speaker 10: was safe under the bench, and my friend Aliyah was
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Speaker 10: under the like a pram. She found a pram to
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Speaker 10: shelter her. And it was a few minutes of the
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Speaker 10: shooting and we were all praying and saying Shama, which
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Speaker 10: is one of our prayers that is like about unity
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Speaker 10: and about like declaring our God as one and saying
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Speaker 10: how much like just.
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Speaker 2: Expressed it must have been terrified.
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Speaker 10: I was, but I channeled that energy into becoming proud.
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Speaker 10: So I after a few minutes of the shooting, I
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Speaker 10: looked around and obviously there was horrible sightings, but.
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Speaker 11: To mine there was there was a pause in the shooting.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, there was a pause, and I looked to my
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Speaker 10: side and there was an elderly woman and a woman
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Speaker 10: that was around twenty five, I could say. And when
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Speaker 10: I looked at them, they were it was like obvious.
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Speaker 10: I could see that the elderly woman was shot in
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Speaker 10: the stomach and the younger one was shot in the head,
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Speaker 10: and I.
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Speaker 11: Got good see.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it was hard, but I could see like them
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Speaker 10: bleeding out, and I could see it was very graphic,
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Speaker 10: and I saw they I remember hearing them screaming like
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Speaker 10: please save my son, Please save my son, Save the children,
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Speaker 10: save their children. So all that was going through my
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Speaker 10: head was my mission is to save this children, and
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Speaker 10: this is God testing me.
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Speaker 2: You had this message telling you go save those little kids.
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Speaker 11: Yep.
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Speaker 2: So and how old did you say they were?
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Speaker 10: They like around three or to five, I'm not sure.
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Speaker 10: They were little toddless. So I climbed that from under
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Speaker 10: the bench and everyone was screaming like get down, say yourself,
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Speaker 10: save yourself. I was like, no, God is next to me.
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Speaker 10: God is telling me. God is with me, and I'm
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Speaker 10: doing this, So I sorry. I climbed out from under
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Speaker 10: the birds and it was still shot firing and I
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Speaker 10: was under the.
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Speaker 2: So they'd started up again the pit.
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Speaker 11: They started again.
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Speaker 10: I was like, I don't care, I'm doing it. Whatever
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Speaker 10: happens is for the good, and if I die saving kids' lives,
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Speaker 10: then that's the best way I would want to die,
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Speaker 10: because that's what God wanted from you.
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Speaker 2: So take me back to that moment. So you were hiding,
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Speaker 2: there was a break in the shooting. You look up
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Speaker 2: and you see these an elderly woman and then a
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Speaker 2: younger woman, both clearly not in a good stay yeah,
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Speaker 2: shot badly, and the younger woman screaming, someone, look, take
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Speaker 2: my kids, save my son, Save my son.
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Speaker 10: So I climbed under and I grabbed the kids from them,
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Speaker 10: and it was really heartbreaking.
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Speaker 11: What is it all they had that mom.
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Speaker 10: I'm not sure if it was a mom, but I
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Speaker 10: know that the son it was the son's mom. They
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Speaker 10: were covered in blood. Had to tell of the people that.
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Speaker 11: They were the mom. So she was holding them.
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Speaker 10: So I grabbed them and I just fully went on
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Speaker 10: top of them like I felt like it was an
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Speaker 10: out of body experience, Like I felt like I was
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Speaker 10: watching a movie and this was what was happening. So
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Speaker 10: I jumped onto them, and I was like a cave
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Speaker 10: to them, like I went on top and I just
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Speaker 10: laid on top of them.
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Speaker 2: And the woman who was saying, save my son, she
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Speaker 2: was the one who'd been.
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Speaker 11: Shot in her head. So she'd been shot.
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Speaker 2: In her head. She's holding her children looking for someone to.
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Speaker 10: Help them because she couldn't physically roll on top of them,
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Speaker 10: like even if she tried, because they were next to her.
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Speaker 10: So I just when I took them then, I was
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Speaker 10: cleaning their faces and I was telling them that I
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Speaker 10: loved them so much to what happened then. So I
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Speaker 10: went on them and I felt the impact of the
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Speaker 10: shot and I knew I got shot, and I said,
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Speaker 10: I don't care, I'm protecting Where were you shot? I
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Speaker 10: was shot on my side around here. It's like elevated
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Speaker 10: right now. But it's a pretty big bullet.
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Speaker 11: They said.
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Speaker 10: It was like the size of a twenty cent coin
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Speaker 10: and it was like a few centimeears thick. But thank god,
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Speaker 10: the surgery went well and I got it out.
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Speaker 2: You were shot in your leg and you're still lying
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Speaker 2: protecting these two little kids at three five year old,
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Speaker 2: and I mean, you must have been in a terrible pain.
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Speaker 10: I in that moment, I channeled the pain into strength.
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Speaker 10: Like I don't know how I did it. I never
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Speaker 10: practiced doing that in my entire life, but in that
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Speaker 10: fourteen you just finished your eight.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're incredible.
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Speaker 11: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: And so while you're protecting these little kids, you try
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Speaker 2: to find your phone to call the police, to call TRIPLO.
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Speaker 10: And it was ringing and ringing and ringing, and finally
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Speaker 10: I get a voice and they were like, I said,
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Speaker 10: I'm sorry, there's so man, people shot a lot of people.
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Speaker 10: But I didn't want to scare the kids because I
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Speaker 10: know they've obviously already been traumatized. So I was like,
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Speaker 10: you know, you probably don't understand, and I need you
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Speaker 10: to be here. I said, the police please come like
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Speaker 10: it's like, like we need you to step up and
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Speaker 10: support the country because you say I've been shot. Yeah,
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Speaker 10: I said, I've been shot. There's a lot of people
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Speaker 10: that have been shot. I see a lot of people
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Speaker 10: that aren't don't look well. I was saying, please come, like,
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Speaker 10: come on that beach, like, I'm sure you're getting a
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Speaker 10: lot of cools, but you need to be here, like
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Speaker 10: you need to support our country and you need to
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Speaker 10: be here. And then I got a voice and it
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Speaker 10: was saying, sorry, we don't have time for you. There's
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Speaker 10: too many people calling right now.
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Speaker 11: And they hung up. They hung up, and so what
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Speaker 11: did you do?
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Speaker 2: Then?
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Speaker 11: You tried to call Tripolos? What was your next move?
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Speaker 10: I called my dad and he said, I'm coming right now,
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Speaker 10: and he ran to me and he told me after
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Speaker 10: that when he found me, I had one kid in
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Speaker 10: one arm and another kid in my other arm, and
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Speaker 10: a member of our community, the sephardi Aback community of Sydney,
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Speaker 10: he took the kids from me so my dad could
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Speaker 10: start like to put pressure on the wound. And I honestly, like,
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Speaker 10: I thought it would just be a hole in my skirt,
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Speaker 10: but when I looked down, I saw like the hole
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Speaker 10: went through my skin, like I could see everything going
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Speaker 10: on in my leg.
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Speaker 2: Kyah, you are. I can't believe how courageous and amazing
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Speaker 2: you are. I mean, if you would have stayed in
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Speaker 2: your hiding spot, you never would have got hit. But
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Speaker 2: you came out of your hiding spot, put yourself into
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Speaker 2: the line of fire, literally to protect someone else's children.
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Speaker 2: Do you know what happened to that the mother and
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Speaker 2: the older woman.
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Speaker 11: We haven't found that out.
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Speaker 10: We've been trying to reach out and find those kids
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Speaker 10: and locate them, but we just you'd love to meet
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Speaker 10: them again. I just felt so connected to them. And
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Speaker 10: that's what the Jewish community is like. If someone asked
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Speaker 10: me what was one word to describe the Jewish community,
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Speaker 10: I would say family, because in that moment everyone was.
23:30
Speaker 10: It felt like we were all brothers and sisters and
23:32
Speaker 10: we were all in it together.
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Speaker 2: And so you'd love to find those two little kids
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Speaker 2: again and make sure they're safe and to know that
23:43
Speaker 2: their mum is okay.
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Speaker 11: I really want to connect with them.
23:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that if it is the grandmother. We don't
23:49
Speaker 2: know if it's the grandmother or not. Yeah, well, hopefully
23:53
Speaker 2: we'll be able to try reconnect you. And so then
23:57
Speaker 2: you were taken straight to hospital. You've had multiple surgeries.
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Speaker 10: I had one surgery, and basically what happened was is
24:04
Speaker 10: after that, the kids went to the pavilion where a
24:07
Speaker 10: lot of other kids were and where they went to
24:09
Speaker 10: locate their family, and the Bonde rescue.
24:13
Speaker 11: You guys came.
24:13
Speaker 10: And there were so many injured and so many wounds
24:16
Speaker 10: in so many like so many casualties that they had
24:21
Speaker 10: not enough stretches. So they had to put me on
24:23
Speaker 10: a Bondair rescue life a surfboard and a bunch of
24:28
Speaker 10: men carried me out and they put the blanket over me.
24:31
Speaker 10: And when I was there, I saw so many people's
24:34
Speaker 10: that was like all of the people. It was like
24:36
Speaker 10: my cousin's uncle's friend and my teacher's brothers sister, like
24:40
Speaker 10: it was so it was like.
24:44
Speaker 11: It was like it just felt.
24:46
Speaker 10: So real in that moment, like that was when I
24:48
Speaker 10: got the like the shock of what actually happened. My
24:51
Speaker 10: dad told me that after the surgery, like I was
24:54
Speaker 10: telling all the surgeons, I love you so much because
24:57
Speaker 10: in that moment, I felt that God made me be
25:02
Speaker 10: on this earth for a reason. And why not share
25:04
Speaker 10: good because you.
25:06
Speaker 2: Felt so supported by everyone around you?
25:08
Speaker 10: Why not love the light in the tunnel of darkness?
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Speaker 2: Kaya, Thank you so much for sharing your Story's the
25:14
Speaker 2: most incredible fourteen year old girl I've ever met. Very
25:17
Speaker 2: brave is that the most Isn't that the most beautiful,
25:24
Speaker 2: incredible story you've ever heard, and what an amazing and
25:28
Speaker 2: courageous teenager. Genuinely, this terror attack showed us the most
25:33
Speaker 2: the worst of humanity and then the best heroes like Kaya,
25:38
Speaker 2: who could have stayed in her safe hiding place but
25:40
Speaker 2: came out to protect those little girls. And if you're
25:43
Speaker 2: watching this and you know who the mother is, how
25:47
Speaker 2: the mother is, please reach out to me and let
25:50
Speaker 2: me know. All right, well, we're broadcasting live from the
25:54
Speaker 2: site where the terror attack took place. In Joining me
25:56
Speaker 2: now is Shadow Minister for Defense, Angus Taylor, Angus to
26:00
Speaker 2: see you. Now, we've just as we've been standing here,
26:03
Speaker 2: you know, reporting tonight, there's been the most beautiful singing
26:08
Speaker 2: Waltzing Matilda Chance of Ozzy Azy Azziii Ossie Legend. Nova
26:14
Speaker 2: Peris has given a speech. She broke down in tears
26:17
Speaker 2: as she did. So the atmosphere here is incredible.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it absolutely incredible? Shark?
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Speaker 12: Can I say what a privilege it is to be
26:26
Speaker 12: here for me, at this beautiful, beautiful vigil under such
26:31
Speaker 12: dramatic circumstances tragic circumstances, of course, but you can't help
26:36
Speaker 12: be captivated by the energy and love from the ground.
26:39
Speaker 2: And I mean, look, at the size of this floral tribute.
26:42
Speaker 2: I've been here every single day since the night of
26:46
Speaker 2: the terror attack, and it started off as a small bouquet,
26:50
Speaker 2: you know, a bunch of flowers, and it's just grown,
26:53
Speaker 2: it's taken up. Look at that. I mean you, thousands
26:56
Speaker 2: and thousands Australians from all walks of life, all religions
27:01
Speaker 2: have come here.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely right, and I mean coming in here to
27:04
Speaker 12: Bondo today it was incredible just the number of people
27:08
Speaker 12: paying their respects to what has been a dreadful.
27:12
Speaker 1: Dreadful set of circumstances.
27:14
Speaker 12: But the communities come together and that's when Australia's added.
27:18
Speaker 2: I want to get to the Prime Minister's press conference today.
27:21
Speaker 2: He was urged to act on anti Semitism. He finally
27:25
Speaker 2: did that today, not one lawsy out a press commons
27:28
Speaker 2: and anti semitism. What did you make of the measures,
27:31
Speaker 2: he announced, Well.
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Speaker 12: We welcome them, but frankly they're too little, too late,
27:36
Speaker 12: showing too late, because we saw the warning signs on
27:40
Speaker 12: this from October seven. Two days later, we saw the
27:44
Speaker 12: chanting and the steps of the opera house, and the
27:46
Speaker 12: graffiti and the intimidation and the harassment and the fire bombing,
27:51
Speaker 12: and still we didn't see the action we needed, and
27:56
Speaker 12: too little because we know that the threat rating was
27:59
Speaker 12: raised in the middle of last year. There's been no
28:01
Speaker 12: extra resources put into counter terrorism in this country during
28:06
Speaker 12: that time, and we were not prepared.
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Speaker 1: That's the reality.
28:10
Speaker 2: Josh Freidenberg here yesterday said he felt the Prime Minister
28:14
Speaker 2: was personally responsible for this attack. Do you agree with that?
28:18
Speaker 1: Well, I think he is responsible.
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Speaker 12: I mean I think we all need to reflect on
28:23
Speaker 12: what we could have done more to avoid this. But
28:27
Speaker 12: the Prime Minister in particular has the most ability, the
28:30
Speaker 12: greatest ability to prevent something like this, and what is
28:35
Speaker 12: very clear is there was a failure of leadership. That
28:38
Speaker 12: is absolutely clear for the reasons I've just said about
28:41
Speaker 12: the warning signs we saw.
28:43
Speaker 2: Do you think more needs to be done on the
28:45
Speaker 2: issue of radical Islamic radicalization?
28:50
Speaker 12: Absolutely? I mean that is the root cause of the problem.
28:53
Speaker 12: For that, this absolutely extreme, cancerous religious and ideological extremism,
29:02
Speaker 12: which is not just in Australia but around the world,
29:06
Speaker 12: is a rot and that's what caused this.
29:10
Speaker 1: It absolutely needs to be weeded out.
29:12
Speaker 12: We do not want it in this country and we
29:14
Speaker 12: have to do everything we possibly can to get rid
29:17
Speaker 12: of it.
29:18
Speaker 2: I want to ask you about the question, Josh Friedenberg
29:21
Speaker 2: was asked on the ABC last night. I don't know
29:24
Speaker 2: if we need to play it again. Everyone's probably seen
29:27
Speaker 2: it by now. Friedenberg was asked whether he gave that
29:34
Speaker 2: speech yesterday because he wanted to get back into politics.
29:38
Speaker 2: He reacted in a very emotional way because this is
29:41
Speaker 2: an issue that's clearly extremely important to him, as it
29:44
Speaker 2: is what should be to all Australians, not just Jewish Australians.
29:48
Speaker 2: What did you think of the question, the seven thirty
29:50
Speaker 2: host asked him.
29:51
Speaker 1: Well, she asked him whether it was politically motivated.
29:53
Speaker 12: Well, he was motivated by his community and by his country,
29:57
Speaker 12: and they are the right motivations. I thought it was
30:01
Speaker 12: a suburb speech. I thought you said exactly what he needed.
30:06
Speaker 12: And the truth is the ABC gets a billion dollars
30:11
Speaker 12: lee of fund, he doesn't need to ask.
30:14
Speaker 1: Questions like that.
30:15
Speaker 12: Yeah, it is absolutely ridiculous as a question.
30:19
Speaker 2: Right, Angus Taylor, thank you so much for your time.
30:21
Speaker 2: I appreciate you being here as well. All right, still
30:25
Speaker 2: to come, Hollywood actor Nate Buzz joins me and Rabbi
30:29
Speaker 2: Yossi Friedman will light candles for the fifth night of
30:32
Speaker 2: Kannaka Live on the show plus. The young paramedic who
30:35
Speaker 2: was shot here on Sunday speaks to me from his
30:39
Speaker 2: hospital bed that's after the break. Yankee Super is a
30:47
Speaker 2: twenty four year old paramedic who was one of the
30:50
Speaker 2: first shot in the terror attack. He was on the
30:53
Speaker 2: front line volunteering with Hutsola, which is the Jewish community's
30:58
Speaker 2: volunteer ambulance service, when the shooting began. Well from his
31:02
Speaker 2: hospital bed today, he described the moments that saved his life.
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Speaker 11: Yankee, how are you so good to see you? How
31:16
Speaker 11: you don't get up?
31:17
Speaker 13: I'm okay.
31:18
Speaker 2: I don't think I can anyway, joking, So good to
31:21
Speaker 2: see you.
31:22
Speaker 13: It's good to see you think.
31:23
Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing, you're here, amazing, amazing, you made it through.
31:27
Speaker 2: So you were at the Bonda Kannaker event and had
31:31
Speaker 2: you heard shots or I was?
31:34
Speaker 13: When I arrived, I sat up a station for myself
31:37
Speaker 13: with all my equipment. Okay, someone gets injured. I put
31:40
Speaker 13: myself right of the entrance so I got a good
31:41
Speaker 13: advantage point the whole whole, the whole area, so I
31:45
Speaker 13: see if you're an injured, I can see where they
31:47
Speaker 13: I can get to them quickly.
31:49
Speaker 2: So you were closest to the end.
31:50
Speaker 11: So it was the entrance.
31:51
Speaker 13: The entrance, Yeah, and I was standing there and even
31:55
Speaker 13: here shots or just I just felt like a zap
31:57
Speaker 13: in my body and I fell to the ground.
32:00
Speaker 10: And then did you realize it was pretty much straight away?
32:03
Speaker 13: Then blood's been coming out of my mouth, and those
32:06
Speaker 13: I thought shot in the head to quickly felt around
32:08
Speaker 13: was shot in the head, and I could feel blocking
32:10
Speaker 13: in my back. And then then I could already see
32:13
Speaker 13: just shots flying over me in the entire park, on
32:16
Speaker 13: the ground. If on the ground, looked to my left,
32:19
Speaker 13: people lying to my right, people lying on the ground.
32:21
Speaker 11: Were you terrifying all over the ground?
32:25
Speaker 13: Yeah, look I was hearing you don't expect that, especially
32:29
Speaker 13: in Australia. But I grabbed my radio. So my my
32:34
Speaker 13: radio as a microphone. The microhone comes up around my
32:36
Speaker 13: back and sits up on my shoulder. So when I
32:39
Speaker 13: was lying on the ground, I went to reach for
32:41
Speaker 13: the mine.
32:41
Speaker 2: You normally would radio for help.
32:43
Speaker 13: I grabbed the microphone. It's not there's nothing there. It's
32:47
Speaker 13: blown off. So I had to grab the actual radio
32:50
Speaker 13: and disconnect the micro from the radio, and I hit
32:52
Speaker 13: my dress, and I called on the radio. I said,
32:56
Speaker 13: instead of been hit.
33:02
Speaker 1: All right? Time for where are you bleeding from? Where
33:04
Speaker 1: are you bleeding from from?
33:08
Speaker 14: I don't know?
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Speaker 1: Twenty three you need to calm down.
33:12
Speaker 13: Twenty three you need to calm down and try to
33:14
Speaker 13: stop the bleeding.
33:24
Speaker 2: And that call was do you think seconds after.
33:26
Speaker 11: You'd been here?
33:28
Speaker 13: And one of the guys was the behindsman. He left
33:32
Speaker 13: that event. He got in his car, he drove down
33:34
Speaker 13: so he and he had Kelly, she was in the
33:37
Speaker 13: car with him. There. She jumps in the car and
33:41
Speaker 13: he responsive to to where I was, and he was
33:44
Speaker 13: sooner worded to where are you? Where are you? So
33:46
Speaker 13: I'm on the ground and with the entrance, I'm shot
33:49
Speaker 13: and I saw him pulling in. I could look.
33:52
Speaker 2: I looked up.
33:53
Speaker 13: I saw his car pulling in the store, the store,
33:56
Speaker 13: gunshots firing. She was talking about ten minutes to allow
34:00
Speaker 13: till till he stopped, and he or I still underli fire.
34:04
Speaker 2: He arrived and came to help you while while the
34:07
Speaker 2: wart's lying. So brave of him and so when you
34:11
Speaker 2: radio to Hatsola, they would have then called the police
34:14
Speaker 2: and don'tified the police as well.
34:16
Speaker 13: The controls that would have there, and I need to
34:19
Speaker 13: respond to multiple casualties. I need every resource. I need
34:22
Speaker 13: everyone down here.
34:23
Speaker 2: It's such a beautiful Kanneker event, children's rides, petting zoo music,
34:29
Speaker 2: the lighting of the Kanukia which was about to happen.
34:33
Speaker 2: It's such a happy, relaxed event. The shooting hadn't started.
34:37
Speaker 2: You suddenly felt like you'd been hit on your back.
34:40
Speaker 2: I mean, what was going through your mind at that point?
34:43
Speaker 13: Nothing went as As soon as I was on the ground,
34:46
Speaker 13: I realized what happened. I just think I was grabbed
34:50
Speaker 13: the radio and called them the radio.
34:51
Speaker 2: Could you see the shooters?
34:53
Speaker 13: I couldn't see them.
34:55
Speaker 2: Could you see other people started all over.
34:58
Speaker 13: The ground, A and he. Once the shooting stopped, I
35:05
Speaker 13: stood up and I ran to my car. And because
35:08
Speaker 13: I still have ambulances at that point, the soon just
35:12
Speaker 13: just stopped. So I need to get to hospital. So
35:14
Speaker 13: I jumped to my car. I gave the keys to
35:17
Speaker 13: someone else. I said, just drive me to the hospital.
35:19
Speaker 13: So he jumped in the front seat and I jumped
35:21
Speaker 13: to the pasture seat, and we started pulling out of
35:24
Speaker 13: the parking lot. And as we pulled out, the ambulances
35:27
Speaker 13: that are coming in. So I said, pull over, let
35:29
Speaker 13: me jump out, and so he pulled over. I jumped
35:32
Speaker 13: out of the car and I ran towards the ambulances.
35:35
Speaker 13: And I know all the paramedics personally, my first name.
35:37
Speaker 13: I see them every day. I work with them all day.
35:40
Speaker 13: They didn't realize I was shot. I ran towards them,
35:42
Speaker 13: and so I was showing their names. I said, so
35:45
Speaker 13: then their names. I've been hit. I've been hit. They
35:47
Speaker 13: thought I was running to help them, and they grabbed
35:50
Speaker 13: me and just leaning on the ground, and I started
35:53
Speaker 13: cutting off my clothes and started treating them wounds.
35:59
Speaker 2: And before that, and when you were lying on the ground,
36:01
Speaker 2: you're a paramedic, So what did you do to try
36:05
Speaker 2: and stop the bleeding?
36:06
Speaker 13: So I grabbed my kipper and I folded it and
36:09
Speaker 13: I felt whether I felt blood coming to my back
36:12
Speaker 13: and I was laying on my stomach. So I took
36:13
Speaker 13: my keyp off and I put it on the ground
36:15
Speaker 13: that I rolled onto my back and I lay back
36:18
Speaker 13: on the key part to use my keyber to try.
36:20
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that was clever.
36:21
Speaker 13: I stopped the stop the bleeding.
36:22
Speaker 2: So the pressure of your body weight on the ground
36:24
Speaker 2: would hopefully try to stop the bleeding.
36:28
Speaker 13: I think it helped.
36:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was it incredible pain.
36:33
Speaker 13: Yeah, the pain was I wasn't thinking about the pain
36:36
Speaker 13: at that point. Once I was in the ambulance on
36:38
Speaker 13: the way to hospital. Then that when I was just
36:41
Speaker 13: trying to just trying to get responders that come down
36:44
Speaker 13: there to help us.
36:47
Speaker 2: And I heard when you were finally on the way
36:48
Speaker 2: to hospital, you started giving directions about which medication you
36:51
Speaker 2: should be administered.
36:53
Speaker 13: Yeah, I know all the I knew the parmenters who
36:56
Speaker 13: are treating me on you. Then well it's the guy
36:59
Speaker 13: who was treaming. I saw him a week early on
37:01
Speaker 13: an emergency with him, I'll just give you my advice
37:04
Speaker 13: what I recommend, and they listened to it.
37:09
Speaker 2: And so then was it touch and go for a
37:11
Speaker 2: while when you were in the hospital.
37:13
Speaker 13: So I remember coming to the hospital and going into
37:16
Speaker 13: into emergency, into the scan, into theater, and then just
37:21
Speaker 13: before theater, the doctor he as I went on the table,
37:27
Speaker 13: he came to me, he said, what's her name? My
37:29
Speaker 13: name is Yankee. You say Yankee, I'm also Jewish, and
37:34
Speaker 13: then he he he knocked me out and anesthetic. Yeah,
37:39
Speaker 13: and I woke up three am.
37:41
Speaker 2: The next morning, so they had to remove the bullet.
37:45
Speaker 13: They had to. So I was shot in the in
37:47
Speaker 13: the left side, but it's just here and the shrapnel
37:52
Speaker 13: collapsed my right lung. So my left lung was actually fine.
37:55
Speaker 13: It was the right lung which has impacted and the
37:59
Speaker 13: bullet missed my spine by two centimeters. So they had
38:02
Speaker 13: to remove the bullet and some of the shrapnel.
38:06
Speaker 2: The type of bullets that were used, the ones that
38:10
Speaker 2: that then shatter that causes maximum impact on your body.
38:13
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, those balls are designed to once they enter
38:17
Speaker 13: to shutter to cause max impacts for hunting really, so
38:21
Speaker 13: to make sure they hit an animal. It's a it's
38:25
Speaker 13: a clean shot, because a regular book sometimes miss and
38:28
Speaker 13: that when the shrapnel goes everywhere, there's no there's no chance.
38:32
Speaker 13: So that's that's why they use that in hunting.
38:35
Speaker 2: And that's why it's also so dangerous because it's not
38:37
Speaker 2: just the impact site the shrapannel went into your right lune.
38:40
Speaker 13: It was the strapnel which collapsed my my right lunge
38:44
Speaker 13: and so how.
38:44
Speaker 2: Are you doing now in terms of breathing?
38:47
Speaker 13: And so I've only got half capacity of my right
38:51
Speaker 13: lung and they put a drain in there is an
38:53
Speaker 13: actual there's a drain in the back of that along
38:56
Speaker 13: with the vacuum connected right now, vacuuming out out of
39:00
Speaker 13: the lung and.
39:00
Speaker 2: All that you just got out of ice you an
39:03
Speaker 2: hour ago, an hour ago. Yeah, I mean, it's it's
39:07
Speaker 2: great news that you're improving.
39:09
Speaker 13: I have to go back to surgery again tomorrow for
39:12
Speaker 13: a third surgery, and they'll make up their minds off
39:16
Speaker 13: that surgery if I have any further.
39:18
Speaker 2: What happened around you? So when you were down on
39:20
Speaker 2: the ground, and you're obviously very aware, you made the
39:23
Speaker 2: call to the radio, and then what else were you seeing?
39:26
Speaker 13: People screaming? But within within sixty seconds of shots being fired,
39:31
Speaker 13: we already heard police cars coming. The police were there
39:34
Speaker 13: really with extremely quickly.
39:36
Speaker 11: They were there very.
39:39
Speaker 13: Before the shooting. I was looking around the park and
39:40
Speaker 13: I saw three cops staying, and I actually know three.
39:44
Speaker 13: I knew two of the three quite well from a
39:47
Speaker 13: lot of the work we do. We worked up place
39:49
Speaker 13: quite closely. I knew I knew two of the two
39:52
Speaker 13: of the cops who were actually hitting the hero. They
39:54
Speaker 13: really are amazing.
39:56
Speaker 2: People, And you believe you were the first shot.
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Speaker 13: One of you because I didn't really hear anything before that.
40:03
Speaker 13: I didn't hear. All I just felt was stuff got
40:05
Speaker 13: to the ground and then the shooting starts. So based
40:09
Speaker 13: off that, I think I was one of the first one.
40:11
Speaker 13: It's hard to know, and.
40:12
Speaker 2: What have your reflections been since then? Of a family
40:17
Speaker 2: Khanika event been the target of gunmen.
40:23
Speaker 13: So they try, people try to cause evil in the world.
40:26
Speaker 13: They we were there spreading light. I was there the
40:30
Speaker 13: fresholl capacity to help people, and they came to destroy
40:36
Speaker 13: and help people. But not lucky. Luckily, I'm still alive.
40:42
Speaker 13: Thank God looked after me. I'm still here. But it's
40:47
Speaker 13: a real.
40:48
Speaker 2: Miracle, something you'd never expect in Australia.
40:52
Speaker 13: Never, never, never would have thought in Sydney, Australia. It's
40:55
Speaker 13: just this would happen.
40:57
Speaker 2: How are you feeling about getting out of here and
40:59
Speaker 2: going out in public again.
41:02
Speaker 13: I'll be back. I'll be back at work as soon
41:03
Speaker 13: as I can. Went back back to saving lives. I
41:08
Speaker 13: took my radio with me from the scene to the hospital.
41:11
Speaker 13: Right on the way, I had my radio with me
41:13
Speaker 13: the whole time. Right I heard calls coming through. I
41:15
Speaker 13: heard the radio looking forward to ga. It's covered in blood,
41:18
Speaker 13: but I'm looking forward to washing it up and getting
41:21
Speaker 13: my radio back, and as soon as I can be back,
41:23
Speaker 13: I'll be back saving lines, back on the road.
41:25
Speaker 2: Back on the road as a paramedic. Well, Yankee, thank
41:27
Speaker 2: you so much for sharing your story with us just
41:30
Speaker 2: less than an hour after getting out of ice.
41:33
Speaker 6: You.
41:33
Speaker 2: You're very courageous and thank you for the contribution you make. Okay,
41:41
Speaker 2: still to come. Nate Buzz flies into Australia and will
41:44
Speaker 2: share his reaction to this attack, and Rabbi Yossi Friedman
41:48
Speaker 2: will light Kannaka candles on the fifth night live on
41:51
Speaker 2: air with a powerful message of light over darkness. That's next,
42:00
Speaker 2: Welcome back Well. The Prime Minister says the nation won't
42:03
Speaker 2: be divided by evil, but Sydney's Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher
42:07
Speaker 2: is warning that it already is. When he spoke in
42:10
Speaker 2: Submits and Mary's Cathedral, he condemned the divisive and inflammatory
42:15
Speaker 2: words heard a week after week in demonstrations in Hyde
42:19
Speaker 2: Park with joining me now is Hollywood actor famous for
42:23
Speaker 2: Vampire Diaries and more. Nate Buzz, Nate, good to see you.
42:27
Speaker 2: What do you think of the archbis Bishop's comments? Do
42:30
Speaker 2: you agree? Well?
42:31
Speaker 4: I think the most important theater we need to realize
42:34
Speaker 4: is that the words and the language that has been
42:37
Speaker 4: used for the past two years has come to fruition.
42:41
Speaker 4: You know, what the pro Palastinian movement has been promising
42:43
Speaker 4: to do and targeting the Jewish community happened on Sunday
42:46
Speaker 4: And that might be hard for a lot of Australians
42:48
Speaker 4: to accept, but you and I have been warning this
42:51
Speaker 4: country for two years that there are some sinister, bad
42:54
Speaker 4: players in this pro Palestinian movement that have been radicalized,
42:57
Speaker 4: and now we saw the fruits of that.
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Speaker 2: If you accept the language of globalized the inter Fada,
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Speaker 2: you shouldn't be surprised when violent acts happen.
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Speaker 4: And I think most Australians are completely shocked at what happened,
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Speaker 4: But this is what Israelis have been dealing with for decades.
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Speaker 4: I mean, the First inter Fada and the Second inter
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Speaker 4: Fada were defined by the violence of the Arab Palestinian
43:20
Speaker 4: movement and now we're seeing it in Australia. And what
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Speaker 4: concerns me most about that is this is Bondi Beach,
43:26
Speaker 4: this is where I grew up. This is the furthest
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Speaker 4: place you can get from Israel and now they've brought
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Speaker 4: the war to every day Australians.
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Speaker 2: But this radical Islamist ideology has is behind this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And what's scary is you know the young man that.
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Speaker 2: Has allegedly behind this.
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Speaker 4: Yes, the young man that you know is now just
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Speaker 4: come out of a coma. He was radicalized in Australia,
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Speaker 4: allegedly allegedly radicalized in Australia.
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Speaker 2: I might ask you as you just said, you know,
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Speaker 2: you're in Australia and you spend a lot of time
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Speaker 2: in America and in Israel. Come home today, coming here
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Speaker 2: tonight to this site and seeing the thousands of bouquets
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Speaker 2: and the tragic notes from children. I mean, how does
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Speaker 2: that make you feel?
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Speaker 4: What breaks my heart is the Jewish community here, specifically
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Speaker 4: in Sydney.
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Speaker 2: That I know very well.
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Speaker 4: They are amazing, incredible people that have only given to
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Speaker 4: this country, and they have been so forgotten about over
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Speaker 4: the past two years. I mean I remember seeing graffiti
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Speaker 4: on cars saying kill the Jews.
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Speaker 1: We can't forget that.
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Speaker 4: And I think a lot of Australians have ignored what
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Speaker 4: has been happening in the last two years. And now
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Speaker 4: the Jewish community who has come together behind us who
44:41
Speaker 4: celebrate life.
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Speaker 11: I mean, we heard the Australian.
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Speaker 4: National anthem, we heard people coming together to mourn the
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Speaker 4: innocent people who were killed. And what I would love
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Speaker 4: to see is Australians walking across the Harbor Bridge in
44:54
Speaker 4: solid area with them.
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Speaker 2: Would be beautiful. Yeah, I agree as a strong Christian yourself,
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Speaker 2: do you think the majority of Australians are with the
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Speaker 2: Jewish community?
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Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't think they're with the Jewish community.
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Speaker 4: I think they've been brainwashed with lies and propaganda from
45:12
Speaker 4: pro Palestinian propagandas for two years on social media that
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Speaker 4: they have no idea what's really unfolding in Israel, in Gaza,
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Speaker 4: what's happening to Jewish communities.
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Speaker 1: All over the world.
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Speaker 4: I mean, we've had a stabbing in Manchester from a
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Speaker 4: man named Jihad on another Holy day, a Jewish festival
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Speaker 4: called yon Kipau.
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Speaker 13: I mean, this was a targeted attack.
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Speaker 4: And I don't think the Australian community really understands the
45:37
Speaker 4: evil that's behind people who inspired to do such things.
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Speaker 1: And we have to wake up.
45:42
Speaker 4: And I think this is a real choice whether Australians
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Speaker 4: choose Judaism or jihadism.
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Speaker 1: It's that simple.
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Speaker 2: And the reality is Judeo Christian values underpin our life
45:52
Speaker 2: here in Australia.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's what makes a functioning, healthy society.
45:56
Speaker 4: But you know, as a Christian, I can confidently say this,
45:58
Speaker 4: it's not Judaeo Christian values.
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Speaker 13: It's Judeo values.
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Speaker 4: You know, the Messiah, the Jesus that I follow, was Jewish.
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Speaker 1: He taught from the Torah.
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Speaker 4: He lived by the rules and the principles of what
46:10
Speaker 4: was presented in the Tour into the Nark. So the
46:13
Speaker 4: framework of Western civilization can simply be described as Jewish values,
46:17
Speaker 4: and that's what's under attack. So again Australia has to
46:21
Speaker 4: decide what kind of country we want to live in,
46:23
Speaker 4: because this is a tipping point. If the government doesn't
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Speaker 4: come down hard on those who wish violence on this community,
46:30
Speaker 4: the Australia that we're going to live in is not
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Speaker 4: going to be the same as it was yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Very well, said Nate. Thank you as always for your
46:37
Speaker 2: incredible support and appreciate you being here tonight. Thank you
46:40
Speaker 2: fresh off the plane, Yes, thank you. All right. Well,
46:44
Speaker 2: let's return to the breaking news story this afternoon, and
46:48
Speaker 2: that is that seven men were arrested by counter terror
46:53
Speaker 2: police in Liverpool. In Western Sydney, police have now released
46:56
Speaker 2: a statement. They've said that a police operation in Liverboo
47:00
Speaker 2: has now concluded tactical operations. Police responded to information received
47:06
Speaker 2: that a violent act was possibly being planned. Police intercepted
47:10
Speaker 2: two cars as part of the investigation. As investigations continue,
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Speaker 2: seven men seven are assisting police with their inquiries and
47:19
Speaker 2: at this point in time, police have not identified any
47:22
Speaker 2: connection to the current police investigation of the bond Eyed
47:26
Speaker 2: terror attack, so this is unrelated to their investigation into
47:30
Speaker 2: the bond Ei terror attack. But as I reported earlier,
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Speaker 2: I have confirmed that police received intelligence that these men
47:39
Speaker 2: from Melbourne. That these men from Melbourne were planning to
47:43
Speaker 2: travel to Bondai. It is unknown what their intention was.
47:46
Speaker 2: All right, let's bring it now live at the memorial site.
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Speaker 2: Rabbi Yossi Friedman, who's been welcome. Rabbi, you've been an
47:53
Speaker 2: absolutely inspiring figure. Come in a big close, an absolutely
47:58
Speaker 2: inspiring figure here at the memorial every single day since
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Speaker 2: the attack. How have you personally managed to keep the
48:07
Speaker 2: community together at the single most devastating time in Australian
48:13
Speaker 2: Jewish history.
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Speaker 14: It has just been absolutely horrific, and it's just it's
48:18
Speaker 14: hard to even fathom now. It feels like we're in
48:20
Speaker 14: a nightmare and if only we could wake up from it.
48:23
Speaker 14: But sadly I detarted to realize yesterday when the funerals
48:27
Speaker 14: were taking place, so we were not waking up. This
48:29
Speaker 14: is our reality now, and we just have to somehow
48:32
Speaker 14: like we always have. We have to find the inner strength,
48:34
Speaker 14: be in a resilience and the inner light to keep
48:37
Speaker 14: going and to not forget our mission, which is to
48:39
Speaker 14: continue to increase light. And it's so ironic that they
48:43
Speaker 14: try to prevent us from even lighting one candle at
48:46
Speaker 14: the outset of Kanaka. We're about to usher it in
48:48
Speaker 14: and the forces of darkness cut us down. But yet,
48:52
Speaker 14: as we saw tonight, we still are lighting those candles.
48:55
Speaker 14: We will bounce back and we will not let those
48:57
Speaker 14: forces of hate overtake us.
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Speaker 2: I've seen, I mean even just on the program tonight,
49:02
Speaker 2: but we've seen so many inspirational, beautiful stories of you know,
49:07
Speaker 2: from a fourteen year old to the hero Akhmed who
49:11
Speaker 2: stepped up to play their part in trying to stop
49:14
Speaker 2: this tragedy or stop making it worse. So that is
49:17
Speaker 2: something that's uplifting as well.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 14: I mean what's given me a lot of courage is
49:22
Speaker 14: spending every member I can hear at the memorial and
49:24
Speaker 14: see so many hundreds of thousands of people streaming through
49:28
Speaker 14: from all different backgrounds, people coming from all over Sydney,
49:31
Speaker 14: Australia and actually the world, different organizations to stand with
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Speaker 14: the Jewish people and to say no to hate.
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Speaker 1: And that has actually raised my expirits.
49:39
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think that is the real Australia.
49:41
Speaker 2: It's the people that we are witnessing now.
49:42
Speaker 14: Who open up their doors to those fleeing, sending beautiful
49:46
Speaker 14: messages against hate.
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Speaker 1: That is Australia.
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Speaker 2: Well, it was a Kinnaker event, as you said, where
49:52
Speaker 2: the killer hunted Jews. So I want you to tell
49:56
Speaker 2: us about the message of Kinnaker. While we liked the
49:59
Speaker 2: Kinnaker counters that are I think this has ever been
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Speaker 2: done live on air on Sky News. That's our lovely
50:05
Speaker 2: young help you here can come in and bring us that.
50:07
Speaker 2: Maybe you can even hold it for us that the Knukia,
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Speaker 2: So YOSSI tell us about the message of kanukas we
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Speaker 2: liked the Kanukia on the fifth Night to.
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Speaker 14: Night Night, So it's a special night because tonight the
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Speaker 14: majority of the candles will be lit, the majority of
50:22
Speaker 14: the darkness will be vanquished.
50:24
Speaker 11: And this is an.
50:24
Speaker 14: Ancient Jewish symbol of love, light and peace, which goes
50:28
Speaker 14: back to the ancient temples that stood in Jerusalem, where
50:31
Speaker 14: this was the focal point of our worship and our
50:34
Speaker 14: devotion to God and to each other. And so we
50:38
Speaker 14: like these candles every year to remember the miracles that
50:40
Speaker 14: took place in our past where we were able to
50:43
Speaker 14: serve God freely and respect each other. And so every
50:46
Speaker 14: year we like these candles for eight nights.
50:48
Speaker 2: Well, have we got a lighter handing? Yes, we do.
50:51
Speaker 2: Just behind you here, let's grab this one. So normally
50:55
Speaker 2: you start with the shamash, which is the center candle,
50:58
Speaker 2: but it is heerent bondi.
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Speaker 14: We we've been struggling with the win, with the wins
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Speaker 14: very week, and when they're encased, they still blow out.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to do our best. Great, let's try.
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Speaker 11: Here we go, So this is our shamash.
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Speaker 2: This is the center candle from which you light all
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Speaker 2: the others.
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Speaker 14: Let's and as you can see, the shamash the servants
51:18
Speaker 14: stands above the ark.
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Speaker 2: We've only got a minute left.
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Speaker 14: So let's I don't know lo Hano, Mela a share
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Speaker 14: Mahan has.
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Speaker 2: Then you're doing a great job. What's your name? Asha?
51:47
Speaker 2: Thank you Asha? Okay, we're just keeping them light. It's
51:51
Speaker 2: say we did it. There you go, the message of light.
51:54
Speaker 2: The terrorists did not win. All right, Thank you so much, Yossi,
51:59
Speaker 2: Thank you Asher. But it has been a really difficult
52:02
Speaker 2: week here for all Australians, and of course particularly distressing
52:06
Speaker 2: for the Jewish community. I have to say I've felt
52:09
Speaker 2: it deeply personally. But what I've also felt is the
52:12
Speaker 2: incredible humanity, love and kindness of so many Australians of
52:16
Speaker 2: all fates. And that's what we must hang on to,
52:19
Speaker 2: is we try to move forward from this tragedy. Thank
52:23
Speaker 2: you for your company this week. Good night, and here's
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Speaker 2: poor Murray.