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- 0:01Speaker 1: Why.
- 0:02Speaker 2: On Sky News this is Sharry.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Good Evening Tonight, I'll exclusively reveal the two targets of
- 0:11Speaker 3: the caravan filled with explosives. These targets will send shock waves.
- 0:17Speaker 4: Through the community.
- 0:18Speaker 3: So far, police and politicians have refused to tell you
- 0:22Speaker 3: the intended targets, but we believe you deserve to know.
- 0:26Speaker 4: That's in just a moment.
- 0:28Speaker 3: Also tonight, the Prime Minister slammed for going on the
- 0:30Speaker 3: Kyle and Jackie Oh Show instead of taking major action
- 0:34Speaker 3: on this wave of anti Semitic terror.
- 0:37Speaker 5: The Prime Minister was nowhere to be.
- 0:39Speaker 3: Seen, and David Ossi will join me to discuss this.
- 0:44Speaker 3: As parents awoke to yet more anti Semitic graffiti now
- 0:48Speaker 3: on a schoolgate, Jewish leaders are calling for twenty four
- 0:51Speaker 3: hour police outside of schools, and Rabbi Levi Wolf will
- 0:55Speaker 3: join me in studio at this time of fear and anxiety.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Also on the show tonight, we'll bring you the latest
- 1:02Speaker 3: from that tragic plane crash in Washington, where first responders
- 1:07Speaker 3: are now searching for survivors, and breaking news as we
- 1:11Speaker 3: go to air. Three more hostages have been released by
- 1:14Speaker 3: her must to the Red Crossing Gaza. A Gumberger was
- 1:17Speaker 3: once again paraded on stage. She has just moments ago
- 1:21Speaker 3: been reunited in Israel. We'll come back to all of
- 1:25Speaker 3: that in a moment, but let's start now with the
- 1:27Speaker 3: major breaking news. I can tonight reveal the two targets
- 1:32Speaker 3: of the caravan filled with explosives. The addresses written down
- 1:36Speaker 3: inside the caravan were of the Great Synagogue in Sydney
- 1:41Speaker 3: and the Sydney Jewish Holocaust Museum. To think perpetrators would
- 1:48Speaker 3: have potentially targeted a museum commemorating the Holocaust, a time
- 1:53Speaker 3: when six million Jews were killed, is truly horrifying. This
- 1:58Speaker 3: is a museum to educate the public, to educate future generations,
- 2:04Speaker 3: and to honor the memories of those lost, and to
- 2:07Speaker 3: make sure that antisemitism never happens again. Now, that second
- 2:12Speaker 3: address inside the caravan, my sources tell me, is the
- 2:16Speaker 3: Great Synagogue. This is a beautiful temple in the heart
- 2:20Speaker 3: of Sydney's CBD, a synagogue I know well. I had
- 2:23Speaker 3: my butt mits for there and my parents were married there. Now,
- 2:27Speaker 3: these targets, this is information the police haven't released publicly,
- 2:33Speaker 3: but we think you have the right to know. The
- 2:36Speaker 3: more information we know, the more the Jewish community can
- 2:41Speaker 3: protect themselves. David Ossif is on my show tonight and
- 2:45Speaker 3: he confirms that no Jewish community or security organizations were
- 2:51Speaker 3: told about this terror threat before the Daily Telegraph broke
- 2:55Speaker 3: the news yesterday.
- 2:58Speaker 5: But the first we had specific information about this incident
- 3:01Speaker 5: was when the Daily Telegraph article was published.
- 3:06Speaker 3: And the Prime Minister, Anthony Albinizi is now facing questions
- 3:09Speaker 3: about what he knew and when, and he's under pressure
- 3:13Speaker 3: for his I mean, it's too soft a word to
- 3:15Speaker 3: say inadequate, but his inadequate handling of this wave of
- 3:19Speaker 3: anti Semitic terror in our country. He joked around on
- 3:24Speaker 3: a talkback radio station, an FM radio station instead of
- 3:29Speaker 3: holding a major press conference. First thing this morning, he
- 3:33Speaker 3: went on Kyle and Jackie O's show, where the first question.
- 3:38Speaker 4: Was what does the Prime Minister do on Christmas Day?
- 3:41Speaker 3: He could have come out or even come on here
- 3:45Speaker 3: on Sky News and answered tough questions about this wave
- 3:48Speaker 3: of domestic terror, but instead he chose to go on
- 3:51Speaker 3: a lighthearted breakfast radio show.
- 3:55Speaker 6: But you don't even wake up on Christmas Day and
- 3:58Speaker 6: we'll get ur undies and just have a look what's
- 4:00Speaker 6: under the tree. There's none of that for you.
- 4:02Speaker 7: Did you fly home straight after and spend it with the.
- 4:04Speaker 8: Family or none of that. Look it was Jodie came
- 4:09Speaker 8: up with me, So it was, and the Governor General
- 4:12Speaker 8: was there. It was one of the best things I
- 4:14Speaker 8: have done in my life because I've done heaves well
- 4:22Speaker 8: well that that could get both of us in trouble,
- 4:24Speaker 8: particularly me, well, yes, yes.
- 4:26Speaker 4: Your job would be a jeopardy.
- 4:28Speaker 3: Cole to say this is disrespectful is an understatement. Eventually,
- 4:36Speaker 3: after some joking and back and forth, and I don't
- 4:39Speaker 3: blame Kyle and Jackie, oh, of course not.
- 4:41Speaker 4: This is their radio show to their job. I blame
- 4:44Speaker 4: the Prime Minister for this.
- 4:45Speaker 3: After some back and forth, they eventually got to the
- 4:48Speaker 3: thwarted terror attack.
- 4:51Speaker 6: But thank god for an eagle eyed residence the Old God.
- 4:56Speaker 7: Or whoever that person is, has saved so many lives.
- 5:01Speaker 8: And the authorities, of course are continuing their investigation, the
- 5:07Speaker 8: Irish super regular briefings of course on security issues. And
- 5:13Speaker 8: could I say this to our police and our security
- 5:16Speaker 8: and intelligence age that she do do an amazing job
- 5:21Speaker 8: and people need to be held to account for what
- 5:23Speaker 8: are crimes and put these people in the clink and
- 5:26Speaker 8: keep them there, put them in.
- 5:29Speaker 4: The clink and keep them there.
- 5:30Speaker 3: How did we end up with this Prime Minister? And
- 5:33Speaker 3: that was his phrase for the day, put them in
- 5:35Speaker 3: the clink? He kept repeating it. The Prime Minister refused
- 5:38Speaker 3: to say today when he was told about this terror
- 5:42Speaker 3: threat of the caravan with explosives. The Premier Chris Mins
- 5:47Speaker 3: had no problem saying that he was briefed on January
- 5:50Speaker 3: the twentieth, but Albanezi, when asked, claimed that was an
- 5:55Speaker 3: operational question.
- 5:57Speaker 9: So I mean, was it a few days after nineteen there?
- 6:01Speaker 9: You haven't give us a date.
- 6:02Speaker 8: But I don't go into as I understood, I don't
- 6:06Speaker 8: go into operational details.
- 6:09Speaker 3: When the Prime Minister was briefed by police is not
- 6:13Speaker 3: an operational matter. If it was, the Premier wouldn't have
- 6:17Speaker 3: been able to answer the same question. Shadow Home Affairs
- 6:20Speaker 3: Minister James Patterson said the Prime Minister needs to explain
- 6:24Speaker 3: when he was told and what action he took.
- 6:28Speaker 4: Here he was speaking with my colleague Chris Kenny.
- 6:32Speaker 10: When was the Prime Minister briefed? Was he briefed on
- 6:33Speaker 10: the same day as Chris Mins? And if so, what
- 6:37Speaker 10: action did he take in response to this? Did he
- 6:39Speaker 10: convene a National security Committee of Cabinet. What measures did
- 6:43Speaker 10: they put in place to protect the Jewish community and
- 6:46Speaker 10: all Australians. What reassurance did they provide the Jewish community
- 6:49Speaker 10: based on their knowledge of this incident, or if in
- 6:53Speaker 10: fact he was not briefed, then we need to understand why,
- 6:55Speaker 10: because if the new South Borols premier knows, that the
- 6:58Speaker 10: Prime Minister should surely know.
- 7:01Speaker 3: And Peter Darkan came out and said that this anti
- 7:04Speaker 3: submitted crisis is because the Prime Minister failed to take
- 7:08Speaker 3: early action.
- 7:10Speaker 11: This is a deeply concerning matter and it hasn't gone
- 7:13Speaker 11: away as an issue for our country. We're still seeing
- 7:16Speaker 11: overnight attacks on Jewish homes and when you have Holocaust
- 7:21Speaker 11: survivors who have lived in our country since nineteen forty
- 7:24Speaker 11: five in peace are now saying that they feel unsafe
- 7:27Speaker 11: in our country. It is a national disgrace and the
- 7:30Speaker 11: Prime Minister has presided over this deteriorating situation and I
- 7:35Speaker 11: want to make sure that we can do everything we can.
- 7:40Speaker 3: Meanwhile, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has apologized today after clumsy wording
- 7:45Speaker 3: on breakfast television when he implied that the Jewish community's
- 7:49Speaker 3: fears had sometimes been unfounded.
- 7:52Speaker 12: Look This is obviously a terrifying development, and what it
- 7:56Speaker 12: shows is that the fears that a lot of Australians
- 8:00Speaker 12: and the Jewish community have are not always unfounded. This
- 8:03Speaker 12: is a chilling course of events, deeply troubling, unsettling, and
- 8:09Speaker 12: what it shows is that the fears in the Jewish
- 8:12Speaker 12: community are not always unfounded.
- 8:15Speaker 3: The Treasurer told me today that he was sorry for
- 8:18Speaker 3: these choice of words, and I don't believe he's our enemy.
- 8:22Speaker 3: Unlike alban Easy and Penny Wog and Tony Burke, the
- 8:26Speaker 3: Treasurer has never been a pro Palestinian activist. Chalmers said
- 8:31Speaker 3: to me that he's had that relay to him how
- 8:33Speaker 3: it was interpreted, He said, I apologize. My intention was
- 8:37Speaker 3: to share and acknowledge the very real and understandable fears
- 8:41Speaker 3: and concerns in the Jewish community in light of recent events.
- 8:45Speaker 3: I could have and should have expressed that more clearly,
- 8:48Speaker 3: and I'm sorry I didn't. We've never ever heard Pennywang
- 8:53Speaker 3: or Albanezi apologize for deliberately offending the community. And Jim
- 8:58Speaker 3: Chalmers told me he also phoned as more number of
- 9:00Speaker 3: Jewish community leaders and relayed that message directly to them.
- 9:05Speaker 3: Now I want to talk about the actual incident itself.
- 9:09Speaker 3: And here's what we know so far. Scott Marshall and
- 9:13Speaker 3: Tammy Feruja. Now I showed you these two on my
- 9:17Speaker 3: show early last week. I was the first journalist to
- 9:20Speaker 3: name and show you the image of Scott Marshall there,
- 9:23Speaker 3: and I told you how they'd been charged in relation
- 9:26Speaker 3: or at least Tammy had been charged in relation to
- 9:29Speaker 3: the Willara vandalism where cars were torched and homes were graffiti.
- 9:35Speaker 3: This was the second Willara vandalism incident, you may recall.
- 9:39Speaker 3: I also showed you how Tammy had posted online looking
- 9:42Speaker 3: for a Jerry can. Well, now this same pair are
- 9:47Speaker 3: part of the police investigation relating to the caravan with explosives.
- 9:53Speaker 3: The Herald reported that Tammy posted online looking for a
- 9:57Speaker 3: caravan and here are those hosts.
- 10:00Speaker 4: There's two of them.
- 10:02Speaker 3: Anyone got a caravan for sale? Need one asapp I've
- 10:06Speaker 3: got money. Police Commissioner Karen Webb said police did have
- 10:11Speaker 3: in custody the owner of the caravan.
- 10:15Speaker 13: The owner registered owner of that caravan is a person
- 10:21Speaker 13: that is in custody on unrelated matters. The owner is
- 10:25Speaker 13: out of play and in custody.
- 10:28Speaker 3: And police are still investigating who's behind all of this.
- 10:32Speaker 4: They believe that career criminals have been hired to commit
- 10:36Speaker 4: these attacks.
- 10:38Speaker 3: They say they are very confident that they'll catch the
- 10:42Speaker 3: perpetrators behind it.
- 10:43Speaker 13: All the matters, as I said, the graffiti overnight, will
- 10:47Speaker 13: be under investigation and taken as seriously as other matters
- 10:51Speaker 13: and will continue to hunt those people until we find them.
- 10:54Speaker 2: The New South Wales police are doing everything possible to
- 10:58Speaker 2: catch these people.
- 11:01Speaker 3: And carab Web went on to attack the Daily Telegraph
- 11:04Speaker 3: for publishing this information.
- 11:07Speaker 4: We wouldn't know about any of.
- 11:08Speaker 3: This if it weren't for Mark Murray and his editor
- 11:11Speaker 3: Ben English. And I can tell you the police didn't
- 11:16Speaker 3: ask the Telegraph not to publish. If they had, Ben
- 11:21Speaker 3: English of course would have held off publishing. He's not
- 11:24Speaker 3: going to jeopardize a terrorist investigation. But the police didn't ask,
- 11:30Speaker 3: so there could be good operational reasons for not going public.
- 11:33Speaker 4: And we'll give the police the benefit of the doubt.
- 11:37Speaker 3: But given they look, you have to say lied or
- 11:41Speaker 3: at least misled us. Yesterday they claimed the Jewish community
- 11:45Speaker 3: had been informed, and we now know the Jewish community hadn't. Well,
- 11:50Speaker 3: we just have to wait until all the facts are
- 11:53Speaker 3: on the table. All right, let's bring in now my
- 11:58Speaker 3: Thursday Night Panel four. I'm a Speaker of the House,
- 12:01Speaker 3: Bronwin Bishop and National Senator Matt Canavan, Bronwen. This was
- 12:07Speaker 3: described as a potential terror attack. Had this exploded, this
- 12:11Speaker 3: could have caused a mass casualty event. Don't the public
- 12:14Speaker 3: deserve to know about this?
- 12:17Speaker 14: Absolutely they do. And now that the police are talking
- 12:19Speaker 14: about there being an organization behind these attacks, that they
- 12:24Speaker 14: are coordinated, let's go back to stage one of what
- 12:28Speaker 14: happened after the massacre of October seven, beheadings, rapes, atrocities
- 12:37Speaker 14: on human beings. What we saw was before Israel for
- 12:41Speaker 14: any action at all. We saw that dreadful demonstration at
- 12:44Speaker 14: the Opera House. Now nothing was done, but it happened
- 12:48Speaker 14: all over the world. It didn't happen by accident, or
- 12:52Speaker 14: did it. Was there some organization that made it spring
- 12:55Speaker 14: up to try and seize the ground and turn themselves
- 12:59Speaker 14: into victims. And if that's the case, is there a
- 13:02Speaker 14: broader network of people who perhaps are using that caravan
- 13:07Speaker 14: as a storage depot to which other people can be
- 13:11Speaker 14: told to go and they can collect explosives or they
- 13:14Speaker 14: can find lists or anything else they need to carry
- 13:17Speaker 14: out an anti Semitic act. Now it can be something
- 13:20Speaker 14: that's going to escalate and get worse until we do
- 13:23Speaker 14: see indeed deaths. So I found that conference with the
- 13:27Speaker 14: police quite confusing. I think that confusing is the word,
- 13:32Speaker 14: because on the one hand, the prison was being well
- 13:35Speaker 14: with the telegraphs specifically was being blamed for making these
- 13:39Speaker 14: facts known when people ought to be scared. You've got
- 13:43Speaker 14: the treasure who picks up the vibe that's going around
- 13:45Speaker 14: obviously around the federal cabinet, which says, well, we don't
- 13:49Speaker 14: really believe that these speedle are really threatened so much,
- 13:52Speaker 14: which is what those words meant to me. And then
- 13:54Speaker 14: you've got the police saying, well, we think there are
- 13:57Speaker 14: a group of people, criminals who are actually doing it.
- 14:01Speaker 14: So I think there is so much more to know.
- 14:05Speaker 14: I think there needs to be a coming clean a
- 14:08Speaker 14: moment because I don't think we're getting the full story
- 14:11Speaker 14: at the moment.
- 14:12Speaker 3: Matt Canavan, what do you think I've just revealed tonight
- 14:15Speaker 3: the two addresses that were in the caravan filled with
- 14:18Speaker 3: explosives enough reportedly for a forty meter blast wave, the
- 14:22Speaker 3: Great Synagogue and the Sydney Jewish Museum, that's the Holocaust Museum.
- 14:27Speaker 4: You know, how has it got to this point?
- 14:29Speaker 3: Do you agree that this is due to a lack
- 14:33Speaker 3: of action and leadership and tough enforcement from the very start.
- 14:40Speaker 7: Well, look, first of all, it's just shocking to see
- 14:42Speaker 7: this happen in our country which has always been so
- 14:45Speaker 7: harmonious and peaceful, or generally so. And it must be
- 14:49Speaker 7: even worse for those in the Jewish community. So the
- 14:52Speaker 7: main thoughts are with them, and hopefully they know that.
- 14:56Speaker 7: I think the vast majority of Austrains, I know the
- 14:57Speaker 7: vast majority of his strains are with them and will do
- 14:59Speaker 7: everything we can to protect them. Look, in terms of
- 15:02Speaker 7: the reasons for this, look, it can't be shitted home
- 15:05Speaker 7: to one person, of course, especially if there are foreigners
- 15:08Speaker 7: behind this, foreign actors behind this. It's very concerning. We
- 15:12Speaker 7: don't know that for sure, of course, but we must
- 15:14Speaker 7: be always mindful here that there may be people off
- 15:17Speaker 7: our shores wishing us ill, not just if from the
- 15:21Speaker 7: potential risks of a terrorist attack, but also the chilling
- 15:25Speaker 7: effects on community harmony and cohesion of the threat of one,
- 15:30Speaker 7: of the threat of one and the uncertainty created by it.
- 15:32Speaker 7: So we need to be very careful about making sure
- 15:34Speaker 7: that we do united as Australians and remember what we
- 15:36Speaker 7: value and what brings us together. And look, certainly the
- 15:40Speaker 7: Prime Minister's lack of leadership has not helped matters. He
- 15:44Speaker 7: has not brought the country together through these difficult times.
- 15:46Speaker 7: So I'm not going to sit here and say the
- 15:48Speaker 7: Prime ministers directly to blame for these things. Of course
- 15:51Speaker 7: he's not doing these things, but not showing the kind
- 15:54Speaker 7: of leadership he should as a prime minister has not
- 15:56Speaker 7: helped matters and it certainly doesn't help us combat these
- 16:00Speaker 7: potentially these allegedly potentially foreign actors willing to divide Australians.
- 16:05Speaker 3: Well, I don't think they are foreign actors because New
- 16:07Speaker 3: South Wales Police went on radio today and they said
- 16:09Speaker 3: there was no evidence that there was foreign actors. That's
- 16:12Speaker 3: New South Wales Police on record on the radio saying
- 16:15Speaker 3: they didn't know what the Prime Minister was referring to
- 16:18Speaker 3: and maybe it was.
- 16:18Speaker 7: The AFP has put out a statement though, saying that
- 16:21Speaker 7: they suspect that it may be and as I said,
- 16:23Speaker 7: there's an uncertainty about it, but it's definitely possible.
- 16:27Speaker 3: Well, I've reported that they have no tangible evidence at all.
- 16:32Speaker 3: They might get the evidence it might turn out to be,
- 16:34Speaker 3: but at this point in time, and I've got very
- 16:36Speaker 3: good police sources, there is no tangible evidence for foreign
- 16:39Speaker 3: actors at all.
- 16:42Speaker 4: Now let's turn to Washington, d C.
- 16:44Speaker 3: Where emergency services have pulled multiple bodies from a river
- 16:48Speaker 3: following a horrific mid air crash between a passenger plane
- 16:53Speaker 3: and a military helicopter. The American Airlines jet was carrying
- 16:57Speaker 3: sixty four people went when it went down, and the
- 17:00Speaker 3: black Hawk had three military soldiers. This is just horrific, Brunwin,
- 17:06Speaker 3: really really tragic news. The first responders are now starring
- 17:10Speaker 3: the river looking for survivors.
- 17:13Speaker 14: Survivors, I think is a hopeful word. It's the most
- 17:17Speaker 14: appalling crash. I do not understand how it took place
- 17:22Speaker 14: the Apache, and I know that aircraft quite well. I
- 17:24Speaker 14: have flown in it. The Apache is an aircraft with
- 17:28Speaker 14: breath sophistication. We're going to buy some here. I do
- 17:31Speaker 14: not understand how it could get in the flight path
- 17:34Speaker 14: of that passion to plane. I think there's a lot
- 17:37Speaker 14: of questions to be asked, and I think the new
- 17:39Speaker 14: Secretary of Defense who's just been approved. He's going to
- 17:43Speaker 14: have his first major task on his hands to get
- 17:46Speaker 14: to the bottom of it.
- 17:48Speaker 3: What's your reaction to this, Matt Canavan, Well, it's just tragic.
- 17:53Speaker 7: It's just terribly tragic to see families fighting at an
- 17:57Speaker 7: airport for their loved ones to land, and to be
- 18:00Speaker 7: so close and first of course have the uncertainty of
- 18:04Speaker 7: where are they and ultimately obviously going to receive the
- 18:07Speaker 7: most crushing news that you can in your life, and
- 18:10Speaker 7: your just heart goes out to those people. You don't
- 18:13Speaker 7: see this type of accent occurring too often. It's really hard.
- 18:18Speaker 7: As Browin says, there does seem to be some other
- 18:21Speaker 7: questions that will have to be asked here. The President's
- 18:23Speaker 7: already put our statement out questioning what happened and how
- 18:26Speaker 7: it was to happen. It'll have to be get gotten to.
- 18:29Speaker 4: The bottom of all, right, Matt Canvan.
- 18:32Speaker 3: You've put on the table this week whether the government
- 18:36Speaker 3: should withdraw from net zero targets, and specifically, Matt, you
- 18:41Speaker 3: were one of a group of coalition MPs arguing in
- 18:43Speaker 3: a letter that the net zero Climate Pact is risking
- 18:46Speaker 3: our economy.
- 18:48Speaker 4: What's your argument.
- 18:49Speaker 7: Here, Well, look a bunch of our banks. A few
- 18:53Speaker 7: years ago, all the major four major banks have signed
- 18:55Speaker 7: up to something called the Net Zero Banking Alliance. It's
- 18:58Speaker 7: the United Nations initiative that seeks to restrict finance to
- 19:03Speaker 7: various activities the United Nations doesn't like, like cold mining
- 19:06Speaker 7: one of our biggest exports, gas another massive export, and
- 19:10Speaker 7: even cattle farming, which we know, apparently or the United
- 19:13Speaker 7: Nations think is terribly evil, that is also to be
- 19:16Speaker 7: choked from the finance pipeline. Our banks, our major banks,
- 19:20Speaker 7: signed up to this, and in the last two months
- 19:23Speaker 7: almost every major bank in the US, JP, Morgan Wells, Fargo,
- 19:26Speaker 7: Bank of America, many others, And now in the last
- 19:29Speaker 7: couple of weeks, most major Canadian banks have left the
- 19:33Speaker 7: Net Zero Banking Alliance, partly in response obviously to Donald Trump.
- 19:36Speaker 7: But where left in it? All our banks are still
- 19:39Speaker 7: in it. Our farmers, our miners are subject to these
- 19:41Speaker 7: restrictive financial conditions. That's putting us at a competitive disadvantage
- 19:45Speaker 7: as a country now. And that's why myself and some
- 19:47Speaker 7: of our colleagues, my colleagues have said, let's get out
- 19:49Speaker 7: of this thing and free the shackles off the Australian economy.
- 19:53Speaker 3: The issue is though Brunwan, this would then become a
- 19:56Speaker 3: big issue ahead of the election, and you know this
- 20:00Speaker 3: has been very controversial in the past in the past,
- 20:02Speaker 3: and probably Peter Dutton doesn't want to do anything that
- 20:05Speaker 3: would take votes away from him.
- 20:07Speaker 14: Well, I think that argument holds good when you're talking
- 20:09Speaker 14: about pulling out of Paris. But this alliance is in
- 20:13Speaker 14: a way it's an attack on capitalism itself because it's
- 20:17Speaker 14: not about a lending institution making a decision as to
- 20:22Speaker 14: whether this is a valid investment to make because it's
- 20:27Speaker 14: safe and it's going to give a good return for
- 20:29Speaker 14: the shareholders. This is about saying we don't like the
- 20:32Speaker 14: business you're in and therefore we're not going to lend you.
- 20:35Speaker 14: And of course the banks in this country are a
- 20:37Speaker 14: protected species. You remember in the Great Financial Crisis they
- 20:41Speaker 14: were guaranteed so that they were again and that guaranteed
- 20:47Speaker 14: I think still exists, maybe not to the same extent,
- 20:50Speaker 14: but I think it's still there. So the banks, the
- 20:54Speaker 14: banks can't the banks can't run roughshod. So I think
- 20:58Speaker 14: it's a good questions and I think perhaps the pressure
- 21:01Speaker 14: from international banks may have an effect on whether or
- 21:05Speaker 14: not they continue to remain members or with the whole
- 21:08Speaker 14: alliance just falls apart. But Peter Dutton's quite right. He
- 21:12Speaker 14: wants to focus on the things that are tearing up
- 21:16Speaker 14: our nation. That's cost of living. It's about no energy
- 21:20Speaker 14: and no proper energy supply that it's going through the
- 21:23Speaker 14: roof and costs, and he's not going to be distracted
- 21:27Speaker 14: from that.
- 21:28Speaker 4: All right.
- 21:28Speaker 3: Matt Canavan, Brahmin Bishop, thank you so much for your time.
- 21:31Speaker 4: Really appreciate it. Thank you, thank you.
- 21:35Speaker 3: All right, let's return to the major news of the
- 21:38Speaker 3: terror threat. This caravan filled with enough explosives to create
- 21:43Speaker 3: a forty meter blast wave. I have confirmed today that
- 21:46Speaker 3: it's something the Jewish community and security organizations were not
- 21:50Speaker 3: told about. I spoke earlier with David Ossip from the
- 21:54Speaker 3: Jewish Board of Deputies. He's now calling for twenty four
- 21:57Speaker 3: hour security presence at Jewish schools, and he confirms no
- 22:01Speaker 3: Jewish organization that he's aware of knew about this prior
- 22:05Speaker 3: to the Daily Telegraph. Here he is, David Asi, thank
- 22:09Speaker 3: you so much for joining us on what's been such
- 22:13Speaker 3: a difficult week yet again for the Jewish community. What
- 22:17Speaker 3: do you think needs to be happened now to keep
- 22:20Speaker 3: the community safe.
- 22:23Speaker 5: SERI thank you so much for having me on the show,
- 22:25Speaker 5: and you're right. This has been another extraordinarily challenging week
- 22:28Speaker 5: for the community and just when you think you've seen
- 22:31Speaker 5: it all, we are surprised. On the downside, this incident
- 22:36Speaker 5: in Durrell is understandably giving deep concern to the community.
- 22:43Speaker 5: If successful, this would have been the largest terrorist attack
- 22:46Speaker 5: in Australia's history. The explosives in the caravan were enough
- 22:51Speaker 5: to set off a blast which would have had a
- 22:53Speaker 5: radius of forty five meters. So we are talking about
- 22:56Speaker 5: a crisis which is escalated to very very serious purports
- 23:01Speaker 5: and the community is understandably concerned at the moment. And
- 23:04Speaker 5: we have ridden to the New Subwales Police Commissioner this
- 23:07Speaker 5: afternoon and we've requested twenty four our police resources outside
- 23:12Speaker 5: all Jewish schools and preschools.
- 23:15Speaker 3: I mean that seems like something that's so important right
- 23:18Speaker 3: now when you think of the threat, when you think
- 23:20Speaker 3: of the fact a caravan was found with enough explosives
- 23:24Speaker 3: that would have created and this is according to police,
- 23:27Speaker 3: a forty meter blast wave. Have you had a response
- 23:30Speaker 3: from the Police commissioner yet to your request for twenty
- 23:33Speaker 3: four hour security outside Jewish schools and preschools.
- 23:38Speaker 5: We are still awaiting a response from the Police Commissioner,
- 23:41Speaker 5: but you're entirely right. These are very serious circumstances in
- 23:45Speaker 5: which we find ourselves in. It is grotesque and sickening
- 23:49Speaker 5: that school children have had to rock up for their
- 23:53Speaker 5: first day of school and walk past egregious messages of
- 23:56Speaker 5: anti Semitic hate. It is appalling that parents I've had
- 24:00Speaker 5: to explain to their children what they're seeing, and that
- 24:04Speaker 5: parents have had to explain to their kids what the
- 24:06Speaker 5: Jewish community has been experiencing, not just for the past
- 24:09Speaker 5: fifteen months, but for the past few weeks, where the
- 24:11Speaker 5: situation has escalated to crisis like proportions.
- 24:14Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of the most the most abhorrent things
- 24:18Speaker 3: that we've seen. A preschool fire bombed, and graffiti outside schools.
- 24:21Speaker 4: You know, how can anyone.
- 24:23Speaker 3: Be so sick as to target children or the places
- 24:27Speaker 3: where children go.
- 24:29Speaker 4: It's just absolutely despicable.
- 24:31Speaker 3: David Ossip, I want to ask you about when you
- 24:34Speaker 3: were told of this latest threat, the caravan with explosives.
- 24:39Speaker 3: Were you told about this prior to the Daily Telegraph
- 24:42Speaker 3: publishing their story.
- 24:45Speaker 5: No, the first we had specific information about this incident
- 24:49Speaker 5: was when the Daily Telegraph article was published. The Premier
- 24:54Speaker 5: and Deputy Commissioner Hudson then held a press conference. Immediately
- 24:58Speaker 5: after that press conference, the was on the phone to me,
- 25:01Speaker 5: Tipicy Commissioner Hudson was on the phone to me and
- 25:04Speaker 5: they provided a full briefing. But the first time that
- 25:07Speaker 5: we had any information about this caravan was when the
- 25:10Speaker 5: Daily Telegraph published their article on Wednesdae.
- 25:14Speaker 3: And that's the same for any Jewish community or security groups.
- 25:17Speaker 3: That's my understanding that no Jewish community or security groups
- 25:21Speaker 3: were informed prior to the Daily Telegraph publishing.
- 25:24Speaker 4: Is that correct?
- 25:26Speaker 5: That's my Understanding's the best of my knowledge. That's correct.
- 25:29Speaker 3: Were you disappointed in this because especially security groups might
- 25:33Speaker 3: have taken different action had they known about this threat.
- 25:38Speaker 5: Look, we are fortunate as a New South Wales Jewish
- 25:41Speaker 5: community to maintain a very strong working relationship with the
- 25:45Speaker 5: New South Wales government and also with a range of
- 25:47Speaker 5: law enforcement agencies. And by virtue of having those relationships,
- 25:52Speaker 5: there's a continuous flow of information between our community and
- 25:56Speaker 5: between law enforcement and generally whether I and sort of
- 26:00Speaker 5: concern they are raised with us, the message that we've
- 26:03Speaker 5: received from law enforcement is that there were special circumstances,
- 26:08Speaker 5: operational reasons why they were reluctant to share any information
- 26:12Speaker 5: about this. And I think these questions are best directed
- 26:16Speaker 5: to police about what those operational reasons were. But we
- 26:19Speaker 5: take them at face value.
- 26:20Speaker 3: Yeah, we do have to give them the benefit of
- 26:23Speaker 3: the doubt, no matter how disappointing it is. As far
- 26:26Speaker 3: as you're aware, have the potential targets of this attack
- 26:30Speaker 3: been notified at all?
- 26:33Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 26:33Speaker 5: The potential targets have now been.
- 26:35Speaker 3: Notified, okay, and they would presumably be stepping up security
- 26:39Speaker 3: arrangements in light of this.
- 26:42Speaker 5: Look, there is elevated security at all communal institutions at
- 26:45Speaker 5: the moment.
- 26:46Speaker 3: Yeah, as they should be now. The Premiere has shown
- 26:50Speaker 3: very strong leadership. We see it every day. His words
- 26:53Speaker 3: are so strong. He gets it, he cares. But the
- 26:57Speaker 3: Prime Minister first thing this morning he went on Kyle
- 27:01Speaker 3: and Jackie Oh's show. He was laughing about his Christmas holiday, David,
- 27:06Speaker 3: do you think he's taking this seriously enough?
- 27:10Speaker 5: Well. As soon as this matter was publicized yesterday afternoon,
- 27:14Speaker 5: the Premier was immediately on the front foot and held
- 27:16Speaker 5: the press conference with Deputy Commissioner Hudson. The Prime Minister
- 27:20Speaker 5: was nowhere to be seen. The first contact we had
- 27:24Speaker 5: with the Prime Minister was when someone from his office
- 27:27Speaker 5: sent us a text message with his statement. We still
- 27:30Speaker 5: haven't heard from the Prime Minister. We haven't heard from
- 27:33Speaker 5: the Home Affairs Minister. The number one priority for government
- 27:37Speaker 5: is the protection of its citizenry. And frankly, the Prime
- 27:40Speaker 5: Minister and his government, they've overseen a crisis of antisemitism
- 27:45Speaker 5: and now a crisis of domestic terrorism. And frankly, the
- 27:48Speaker 5: Prime Minister needs to stand up and recognize how serious
- 27:51Speaker 5: the situation is, what he's allowed to evolve under his watch,
- 27:56Speaker 5: and he needs to start taking this matter very seriously
- 27:59Speaker 5: and give it the ten that it deserves.
- 28:01Speaker 3: Absolutely, you couldn't be more right. It didn't start with
- 28:05Speaker 3: this wave of domestic terror, as you so accurately put
- 28:08Speaker 3: it. It started on the Upper House steps. It started with
- 28:11Speaker 3: the hate preachers. No action was taken, and now here
- 28:14Speaker 3: we are. David Ossa, thank you so much for your
- 28:16Speaker 3: leadership of the Jewish community and for doing your very
- 28:20Speaker 3: best to keep everyone safe at this time.
- 28:23Speaker 5: Always good to be with you, Cherry, Thank you so much.
- 28:27Speaker 8: Well.
- 28:27Speaker 3: While the Prime Minister started his day joking around on
- 28:31Speaker 3: Kyl and Jackie Oh. Peter Dutton used the strongest language possible.
- 28:36Speaker 3: He said that had this caravan of explosives, had that
- 28:40Speaker 3: attack gone ahead, Dutton said, this would have been the
- 28:43Speaker 3: biggest terror attack in Australia that we'd ever seen.
- 28:48Speaker 11: Had this terrorist attack taken place, if the reports are
- 28:52Speaker 11: correct around the forty meters blast zone, this would have
- 28:55Speaker 11: been the most significant terrorist attack and loss of life
- 28:58Speaker 11: in our country's history.
- 29:00Speaker 3: Premier Chris Mins also showed very strong leadership and he
- 29:05Speaker 3: said this could have been a mass casualty event.
- 29:09Speaker 2: Police have to take it seriously as if it was
- 29:12Speaker 2: an attempt at a mass casualty event, an event of
- 29:15Speaker 2: domestic terrorism in New South Wales.
- 29:19Speaker 3: We all sat here last night in shock at the
- 29:22Speaker 3: fact that many explosives had been found, and then today
- 29:27Speaker 3: we woke up to the news more graffiti, this time
- 29:31Speaker 3: outside a Jewish school and Marubra Synagogue. This was the
- 29:36Speaker 3: first day back at school for preschoolers and it's horrifying
- 29:41Speaker 3: to find that graffiti on the wall right beside the
- 29:45Speaker 3: school entrance gate. It's an understatement to say the Jewish
- 29:49Speaker 3: community is living with fear anxiety and distress at the moment.
- 29:54Speaker 4: I mean, what is wrong with these people that they.
- 29:57Speaker 3: Firebombed a pre school and now have he faced a
- 30:00Speaker 3: school the wall next to a school with anti Semitic graffiti.
- 30:06Speaker 3: Why are they targeting children and places that children go.
- 30:11Speaker 3: The Premier spoke about this today and he said parents
- 30:14Speaker 3: shouldn't have to face this.
- 30:17Speaker 2: It is utterly appalling and shameful that an individual would
- 30:20Speaker 2: spray racist, hate filled messages on a school. That tells
- 30:25Speaker 2: you everything you need to know about how appalling these
- 30:28Speaker 2: bastards are that they would rip apart a school on
- 30:33Speaker 2: one of the first days of school with a racist,
- 30:36Speaker 2: anti Semitic attack.
- 30:39Speaker 3: This all feels extremely intense. That antisemitism feels like it's
- 30:44Speaker 3: now beyond the control of authorities, the police. The pole
- 30:48Speaker 3: Air was on patrol all through the night last night.
- 30:52Speaker 3: If you're in Sydney and if you're a light sleeper,
- 30:54Speaker 3: you might have heard it doing surveillance over the suburbs
- 30:57Speaker 3: at all hours of the night. Yet some of these
- 31:00Speaker 3: attacks are still occurring. The authorities are on high alert
- 31:05Speaker 3: and it's probably about time the terror threat level should
- 31:09Speaker 3: once again be raised now we desperately need I've been
- 31:14Speaker 3: saying this fifteen months. We desperately need strong leadership. We
- 31:19Speaker 3: need to know the government cares about all Australians, including
- 31:23Speaker 3: the Jewish community, not just the voters they need in
- 31:27Speaker 3: marginal seats in Western Sydney. Now I'm going to come
- 31:32Speaker 3: back to this topic with Rabbi leave Wolf a bit
- 31:35Speaker 3: later in the show, but still to come. The CIA
- 31:37Speaker 3: accused of breaking the law by sitting on their COVID
- 31:40Speaker 3: origins assessment, and the dangers of Elon Musk's friendship with
- 31:44Speaker 3: Donald Trump. Michael Schellenberger would join me after the break.
- 31:52Speaker 4: Welcome back.
- 31:53Speaker 3: We're breaking news now, nineteen year old hostage again Berger
- 31:56Speaker 3: has been handed over from Hamas to the Red Cross.
- 32:00Speaker 3: She's back on Israeli soil and she has been reunited
- 32:04Speaker 3: with her parents. We are now waiting for the release
- 32:07Speaker 3: of twenty nine year old r Bel Yohood, an eighty
- 32:11Speaker 3: year old guardy Moses there slated for release today as well.
- 32:15Speaker 4: Now Agem's release is after four hundred.
- 32:18Speaker 3: And eighty two days in terrorist captivity, and this is
- 32:22Speaker 3: of course wonderful news for the families of these hostages. Okay,
- 32:28Speaker 3: Rabbi Levi Wolf is coming up on the wave of
- 32:30Speaker 3: anti Semitic terror shortly, but first, Elon Musk's bromance with
- 32:35Speaker 3: Donald Trump is causing concern inside the MAGA movement. I
- 32:39Speaker 3: spoke about this, along with the CIA's assessment that COVID
- 32:43Speaker 3: was the result of a likely lablique with Michael Schellenberger.
- 32:47Speaker 3: He's a world famous journalist and author and one of
- 32:50Speaker 3: the best newsbreakers internationally.
- 32:52Speaker 4: Here's our chat.
- 32:54Speaker 3: Michael's so good to see you again on the COVID
- 32:57Speaker 3: origins issue.
- 32:58Speaker 4: You've done brilliant reporting.
- 32:59Speaker 3: You famously revealed the names of the three scientists who
- 33:03Speaker 3: first fell ill at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in
- 33:06Speaker 3: what is believed to be the first cluster of the pandemic. Now,
- 33:10Speaker 3: the CIA was obligated under law, a law passed during
- 33:14Speaker 3: the Biden administration, to declassify their intelligence. They failed to
- 33:19Speaker 3: do so, they broke the law. What's your view on
- 33:23Speaker 3: this matter?
- 33:24Speaker 1: Well, first of all'll Sherry, congratulations to you because you
- 33:26Speaker 1: were ahead of most other, almost every other reporter in
- 33:30Speaker 1: the world on this and you haven't gotten credited sufficiently.
- 33:33Speaker 1: So first of all, hats off to you. You did
- 33:35Speaker 1: an amazing job and you have been proven correct in
- 33:38Speaker 1: all of your original reporting. So brava to you. We're
- 33:41Speaker 1: late comers to this. I've only been working out for
- 33:43Speaker 1: a couple of years, but we're really staying on your
- 33:45Speaker 1: shoulders on this issue. But yeah, you know, look, I
- 33:47Speaker 1: mean it is now the CIA, FBI, Department of Energy
- 33:51Speaker 1: are all in consensus.
- 33:52Speaker 5: It's a lablique.
- 33:54Speaker 1: Yes, they say low confidence, but that's just simply because
- 33:57Speaker 1: so much of the evidence was destroyed. I think most
- 34:00Speaker 1: of us are now ninety ninety five percent of the
- 34:03Speaker 1: view that it's a lab league. But you're absolutely right.
- 34:07Speaker 1: The CIA, with its new director appointed by Trump, has
- 34:11Speaker 1: tacitly admitted that the CIA under Biden broke the law
- 34:16Speaker 1: because they were, as you said, required to release all
- 34:19Speaker 1: the intelligence by June of twenty twenty three. They did
- 34:22Speaker 1: not do that. They were out of compliance back then,
- 34:25Speaker 1: and then they've been sitting on this report. We don't
- 34:27Speaker 1: know for how long, but they said explicitly that they
- 34:30Speaker 1: had been sitting on this new analysis of the intelligence
- 34:34Speaker 1: for many months. So they're in violation of the law.
- 34:37Speaker 1: And you kind of go, well, who's going to be
- 34:38Speaker 1: punished for it? Of course nobody, But I do think
- 34:41Speaker 1: it has been really important First of all, we do
- 34:43Speaker 1: need to restore trust in our intelligence and security agencies.
- 34:48Speaker 1: It's worth just reminding all of us that those agencies
- 34:51Speaker 1: depend on the public's belief in them and belief that
- 34:54Speaker 1: they're not corrupt, because their investigations require people to come
- 34:57Speaker 1: forward as witnesses with information and whistleblow. So we do
- 35:01Speaker 1: need to restore trust. It is absolutely missing for all
- 35:04Speaker 1: of our intelligence and security agency. So this is the
- 35:06Speaker 1: first step. There are so many other scandals, Russia Gate, hoaks,
- 35:10Speaker 1: Hunter Biden laptop, the JFK files, the UFO files, the
- 35:14Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein.
- 35:15Speaker 5: I mean, it's just so much I think there is.
- 35:17Speaker 1: This should really try and I think it is transcending
- 35:19Speaker 1: left and right. It's transcending partisanship. It used to be
- 35:22Speaker 1: a left wing issue disclosure. Now the conservatives tend to
- 35:26Speaker 1: be more in favor of it. But I do think
- 35:28Speaker 1: this is a wonderful sign by Trump and as new
- 35:31Speaker 1: CIA director. They have made a good first step in
- 35:35Speaker 1: the disclosure that's needed to repair public trust.
- 35:37Speaker 5: But there's still a.
- 35:38Speaker 1: Lot of information that we're waiting for, and our expectations
- 35:41Speaker 1: are very high.
- 35:42Speaker 3: We've seen this very close friendship between the President and
- 35:45Speaker 3: Elon Musk. There's a bit of a backlash within parts
- 35:48Speaker 3: of the MAGA movement to Elon Musk.
- 35:51Speaker 4: How do you see this playing out?
- 35:53Speaker 1: Well, look, it's also fascinating story, right. I mean, I
- 35:57Speaker 1: think that in many ways, the power center in the
- 36:00Speaker 1: United States just six months ago was our mainstream news media.
- 36:03Speaker 1: They forced then President Biden to decide not to run again.
- 36:07Speaker 1: I mean that was the media basically told Pelosi and Obama,
- 36:10Speaker 1: go get Obama, go get Biden to step down. I
- 36:12Speaker 1: think the power center has shifted. It's now if you
- 36:15Speaker 1: were to identify the two most powerful men in the
- 36:17Speaker 1: United States, it's clearly Donald Trump and Elon Musk arguably
- 36:20Speaker 1: the two most powerful men in the world right now.
- 36:23Speaker 1: And you know, and obviously Elon has maybe not obviously
- 36:26Speaker 1: people should know he's hired a lot of what are
- 36:28Speaker 1: called H one B visa immigrants in the United States.
- 36:32Speaker 1: Traditionally these are Indian software coders computer coders that come
- 36:36Speaker 1: to the United States. There's always a question of whether
- 36:39Speaker 1: Elon would allow a full debate on X and you know,
- 36:43Speaker 1: there's always like accusation senship. To his credit, there was
- 36:46Speaker 1: a robust debate, including people really roasting Elon. You know
- 36:51Speaker 1: people I should say maga Trump supporters roasting Elon or
- 36:55Speaker 1: his position on H one B. That debate existed, and
- 36:59Speaker 1: essentially Elon and David Sachs, who's another close supporter of Trump,
- 37:04Speaker 1: particularly an advisor on cryptocurrency, they basically, I don't want
- 37:09Speaker 1: to say caved in, but they moved themselves closer to
- 37:13Speaker 1: the to the people that wanted restrictions. So I think
- 37:17Speaker 1: it's very healthy that you have the owner of this
- 37:19Speaker 1: major media platform. You saw him be moved by people,
- 37:24Speaker 1: and you know, the spirit of the country right now,
- 37:26Speaker 1: the moral center is really that we've got to get
- 37:28Speaker 1: back control of our borders. We've got to get migrants
- 37:32Speaker 1: that are committing crimes and awful crimes.
- 37:35Speaker 5: We've got to get them out of the country.
- 37:36Speaker 1: People said, oh, we can't do that.
- 37:37Speaker 5: There's some reason for it.
- 37:38Speaker 1: Trump is showing that you can do it and that
- 37:41Speaker 1: the skies don't fall, and I think that, yeah. I mean, look,
- 37:44Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be watching the Trump Musk relationship. My view
- 37:46Speaker 1: is that it will hold steady because they just have
- 37:49Speaker 1: so much more to gain working from each other than
- 37:51Speaker 1: they do to be at loggerheads and You'll just have
- 37:53Speaker 1: to see a set of compromises over the next several years.
- 37:56Speaker 1: You're also seeing a playout right now in AI where
- 38:00Speaker 1: Elon doesn't Yeah, Elon doesn't like this character, Sam Altman,
- 38:06Speaker 1: who is one of the great AI pioneers in the
- 38:08Speaker 1: United States. They have a personal beef. It's probably also
- 38:11Speaker 1: business related. But Trump went ahead and moved ahead with
- 38:13Speaker 1: a deal with Sam Altman and promoted it. Elon complained
- 38:17Speaker 1: about it. So look, I think it's it's all to
- 38:19Speaker 1: the benefit, it's all to the health of our country
- 38:21Speaker 1: to have that free speech taking place on what remains
- 38:25Speaker 1: the most important media platform in the world, which is X.
- 38:28Speaker 13: Yeah.
- 38:28Speaker 3: I thought you were referring to China's version of Chat GPT,
- 38:31Speaker 3: which has caused massive waves in the tech in business
- 38:35Speaker 3: world today.
- 38:35Speaker 4: But yes, Michael.
- 38:36Speaker 1: Shellenberg, I don't know what that is. We don't know
- 38:39Speaker 1: what that is. I should say, I don't think we
- 38:40Speaker 1: know what that is. I don't believe the hype on it.
- 38:42Speaker 1: I mean they said we made it with a couple
- 38:44Speaker 1: bucks in a garage, or some people.
- 38:46Speaker 5: Say, we just don't know.
- 38:47Speaker 1: I mean, maybe it is a spot Nick moment and
- 38:49Speaker 1: it's going to require the United states to catch up.
- 38:51Speaker 1: This is a fast moving situation. It is a dangerous technology.
- 38:56Speaker 1: It's a technology with huge amounts of promise. I look
- 38:58Speaker 1: to as a nuclear your person, as a historian of nuclear,
- 39:02Speaker 1: I sort of think nuclear is a good model. You
- 39:04Speaker 1: have the private sector involved, you have the government heavily
- 39:07Speaker 1: involved because it is a dangerous technology, and when that
- 39:09Speaker 1: we work with our allies.
- 39:11Speaker 3: On Michael, thank you so much, as always for your time.
- 39:15Speaker 1: It was great to be with you. Thanks for having
- 39:16Speaker 1: me on.
- 39:19Speaker 3: All Right, after the break, we'll return to the breaking
- 39:21Speaker 3: news tonight and the wave of domestic terror. I'll speak
- 39:24Speaker 3: with one rabbi from a major synagogue about how to
- 39:27Speaker 3: cope with these attacks.
- 39:29Speaker 4: He'll be on Live next. Welcome back.
- 39:34Speaker 3: Well, we've seen attacks on the Adas Synagogue in Melbourne,
- 39:38Speaker 3: the Marubra Synagogue was graffitied along with the Newtown and
- 39:42Speaker 3: Sydney South Sydney synagogues recently, and now the shocking news
- 39:46Speaker 3: that a caravan packed with explosives had the address of
- 39:49Speaker 3: the Great Synagogue inside it. Well, you'd be feeling very
- 39:54Speaker 3: vulnerable right now if you worked in a synagogue like
- 39:57Speaker 3: my next guest does. Joining me now is Chief Rabbi
- 40:01Speaker 3: the Central Synagogue, Rabbi Lavy Wolf, Rabbi.
- 40:04Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining us now.
- 40:07Speaker 3: As I've just outlined, you know, this is a very
- 40:09Speaker 3: difficult time. How are you personally coping at the moment
- 40:14Speaker 3: with the synagogues clearly being targeted.
- 40:18Speaker 6: I'll answer that question by posing a question to your
- 40:22Speaker 6: viewers and ask them how would they feel if they'd
- 40:28Speaker 6: be hunted down. Let me put a bit of context
- 40:32Speaker 6: into what I'm saying. I am a grandchild of a
- 40:36Speaker 6: single holocaus survivor, as is my wife Hani, a grandchild
- 40:40Speaker 6: of Holocaust survivors. Australia, as you know, per capita outside
- 40:44Speaker 6: of Israel, has more Holocaust survivors than any country in
- 40:47Speaker 6: the world. My synagogue, the Central Synagogue, has the largest
- 40:52Speaker 6: congregation of Halocaust survivors in this country. And just two
- 40:56Speaker 6: days ago we marked the eightieth and of her of
- 41:00Speaker 6: the Liberation of Auschwitz and Bergunal and we as a
- 41:05Speaker 6: community me we are feeling very vulnerable. We are feeling
- 41:09Speaker 6: very targeted, and quite frankly, we are feeling hunted down.
- 41:14Speaker 6: And I found it actually quite telling. I don't blame
- 41:17Speaker 6: him for using this language, but yesterday, when the Deputy
- 41:20Speaker 6: Commissioner spoke about what had happened with the caravan. He
- 41:23Speaker 6: used the language and he says, this was not the
- 41:25Speaker 6: normal antisemitism. I mean there is now the normal antisemitism,
- 41:29Speaker 6: and then there's the abnormals antisemitism. So I mean, is
- 41:33Speaker 6: this all normal? There's you know, we have to come
- 41:35Speaker 6: to expect the normal antisemitism.
- 41:37Speaker 3: Look, it's such a good point, and you know this
- 41:39Speaker 3: shouldn't be normalized. And how has it come to be normalized?
- 41:43Speaker 3: You know, you always speak in synagogue and you give
- 41:45Speaker 3: such comfort to everybody in the community.
- 41:49Speaker 4: Jewish or not Jewish.
- 41:50Speaker 3: So to hear you say, look, we are being hunted down,
- 41:52Speaker 3: this is very confronting.
- 41:54Speaker 4: Rabbi.
- 41:55Speaker 3: You know many Jews would now be feeling anxious, deciding
- 41:58Speaker 3: whether or not to go to synagogue as per usual
- 42:01Speaker 3: on Friday night or Saturday.
- 42:03Speaker 4: What's your message to.
- 42:04Speaker 3: People who are now genuinely and understandably terrified, Sherry, I.
- 42:10Speaker 6: Want to tell you, as a Jew, I think that
- 42:12Speaker 6: there's one word I would never be using, and that
- 42:15Speaker 6: is the word fearful. I don't think the Jewish community
- 42:19Speaker 6: should be fearful. I think that we have a tremendous
- 42:24Speaker 6: miracle where God has been protecting us and looking after us.
- 42:28Speaker 6: And I say that very seriously. I mean, there is
- 42:30Speaker 6: no other way to try and explain how we are
- 42:34Speaker 6: after thirty three centuries being persecuted, pogroms, expulsions, holocausts, inquisitions,
- 42:44Speaker 6: and we're still here. We are still here after so
- 42:48Speaker 6: much darkness, so much hate, so much suffering, and somehow
- 42:54Speaker 6: we are still here. I think it was the Prime
- 42:57Speaker 6: Minister of Israel, the first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion
- 42:59Speaker 6: one said that to be a Jew is to appreciate
- 43:04Speaker 6: that believing in miracles is a realist. There's no other
- 43:08Speaker 6: way to explain how we're here today. So fear is
- 43:11Speaker 6: definitely not something that we have to be concerned about.
- 43:13Speaker 6: But I would have one message to those who are
- 43:16Speaker 6: attempting to put fear into us, to those who are
- 43:19Speaker 6: spreading hate, to those who are so vile with everything
- 43:23Speaker 6: that they're doing, I would say that they are the
- 43:26Speaker 6: ones who are responsible for actually excuse upon rejuvenating the
- 43:31Speaker 6: Jewish community more than anybody has been able to do.
- 43:35Speaker 6: They have brought us together. They have created people who
- 43:39Speaker 6: are all of a sudden back to their traditions, back
- 43:42Speaker 6: to their roots standing taller, being prouder, and they've also
- 43:48Speaker 6: managed to have Jews who have always been traditionally on
- 43:51Speaker 6: the left leave the left.
- 43:53Speaker 3: And now they're watching sky and they're watching you and
- 43:55Speaker 3: me right now. Indeed, that's one good thing to come
- 43:58Speaker 3: out of it.
- 44:00Speaker 4: A side.
- 44:00Speaker 3: The Premier, Chris men said today, and he says it
- 44:04Speaker 3: all the time that most Australians, the vast majority of Australians,
- 44:08Speaker 3: absolutely hate what's going on.
- 44:10Speaker 4: Here's what he had to say.
- 44:12Speaker 2: There are some terrible people in our community. I'm ashamed
- 44:16Speaker 2: to say it, but that's the truth. Bad morals, bad ethics,
- 44:20Speaker 2: bad people that will commit these acts. But Australians stand
- 44:24Speaker 2: united against this appalling racism. Most Australians from every background
- 44:29Speaker 2: regard this kind of hate field activity as the opposite
- 44:33Speaker 2: of what it means to live in our country.
- 44:37Speaker 3: Yeah, and Rabbi, that's the feedback that I have as well.
- 44:40Speaker 3: What's your message to the wider Australian community.
- 44:43Speaker 6: Well, firstly, I want to actually do a shout out
- 44:45Speaker 6: to Chrismans. I think he has been a strong leader
- 44:48Speaker 6: with Greek conviction. He's hitting it out of the park.
- 44:51Speaker 6: He's getting up there at every single press conference and
- 44:55Speaker 6: really giving it his best and hopefully he gets a
- 44:58Speaker 6: lot of scores on the board arresting these people and
- 45:01Speaker 6: finally putting them behind bars. What I would say to
- 45:04Speaker 6: the Australian community is exactly what he said. I believe
- 45:09Speaker 6: that the average Australian is sick and tired. They've had
- 45:13Speaker 6: enough during the summer holidays, while they've been trying to
- 45:16Speaker 6: relax with their families, have been bombarded by photos, by
- 45:19Speaker 6: images of Nazi graffiti, of preschools being firebombed, and they've
- 45:27Speaker 6: had enough. But you know that can't just be enough.
- 45:31Speaker 6: I would say to the silent majority, it's time to
- 45:36Speaker 6: no longer be silent. We now need to turn the
- 45:40Speaker 6: tide and anti Semitism. And it's one thing for leaders
- 45:45Speaker 6: in government, and it's one thing for people in authorities
- 45:49Speaker 6: like police forces, et cetera. Right now, what we need
- 45:52Speaker 6: more than anything is for the average Aussie, for the
- 45:56Speaker 6: average Australian citizen to call it out. It is on
- 46:00Speaker 6: cool to be anti Semitic, and it's on Australian And
- 46:04Speaker 6: unless the average Australian is going to stand out, if
- 46:07Speaker 6: it's at a at a at a tea party, or
- 46:09Speaker 6: if it's at an evening at home or sitting with
- 46:11Speaker 6: friends and having coffee and just you know, remember there
- 46:14Speaker 6: was an advert once for those who were littering in
- 46:16Speaker 6: the streets and they had this like girl looking at
- 46:18Speaker 6: her boyfriend and.
- 46:19Speaker 4: Say, big government advertising campaign. That's true.
- 46:21Speaker 6: It's cool to be to be on Australian it's uncool
- 46:24Speaker 6: to be anti Semitic. And the average and the quiet
- 46:29Speaker 6: and the silent majority needs to now no longer be silent.
- 46:33Speaker 6: That's where we're holding.
- 46:35Speaker 4: Rabbi.
- 46:35Speaker 3: I really appreciate your time and as always your incredible
- 46:39Speaker 3: leadership of the community, especially at this incredibly difficult time.
- 46:44Speaker 6: Thank you Sharry, and to you who have been on
- 46:46Speaker 6: the forefront of really bringing this to the wider society.
- 46:51Speaker 6: You've been a rock star. And thank you for everything
- 46:53Speaker 6: that you've done for fighting anti semitism. Thank you so much,
- 46:56Speaker 6: God bless you.
- 46:56Speaker 4: Thank you. Now, don't go anywhere.
- 46:59Speaker 3: The breakthrough treatment that could mean the difference between life
- 47:03Speaker 3: and death for women fighting breast cancer.
- 47:06Speaker 4: That's after this quick break welcome back.
- 47:11Speaker 3: When a new treatment is offering hope to women fighting
- 47:15Speaker 3: metastatic triple negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive
- 47:19Speaker 3: and deadly forms.
- 47:20Speaker 4: Of the disease with no known cure.
- 47:23Speaker 3: Now, in a world first clinical trial in Queensland, the
- 47:27Speaker 3: combination therapy could provide a crucial lifeline to patients. This
- 47:32Speaker 3: is a really important story.
- 47:33Speaker 4: Have a look.
- 47:35Speaker 15: When Terry Parks was diagnosed with an aggressive form of
- 47:38Speaker 15: breast cancer. She feared the worst, but after chemotherapy, double misectomy,
- 47:43Speaker 15: radiation and ten years of medication, she's still here.
- 47:48Speaker 16: I heard the words advanced aggressive stage three in your
- 47:51Speaker 16: lymph traveling around your body, and yet here I am
- 47:54Speaker 16: fifteen years later, when I know that the survival rate
- 47:59Speaker 16: was quite low for my IBC and I've broken the mold.
- 48:06Speaker 15: Beating the odds is exactly what researchers from QIMR berghoffer
- 48:10Speaker 15: hope their treatment will do for metastatic triple negative breast cancer.
- 48:14Speaker 15: In collaboration with drug development company Carsio Therapeutics, scientists have
- 48:19Speaker 15: combined a drug called paccillasib, initially designed to treat brain cancer,
- 48:24Speaker 15: with immunotherapy.
- 48:25Speaker 17: Metastatic triple negative breast cancer. There is no cure, and
- 48:29Speaker 17: at the moment immunotherapy only works on a subset of patients.
- 48:33Speaker 17: What this is able to do is open up the
- 48:35Speaker 17: ability of many more patients to have access to immunotherapy.
- 48:40Speaker 9: What was unique about it was the potential hypothesis that
- 48:44Speaker 9: this dual inhibition could dramatically improve the efficacy of other assets,
- 48:50Speaker 9: in particular immunotherapies, but also apart inhibitors. Potential even outside
- 48:55Speaker 9: of breast cancer is enormous.
- 48:57Speaker 15: It works by reprogramming dormant cancer cells, making them visible
- 49:01Speaker 15: to the immune system, while strengthening immune cells to attack
- 49:04Speaker 15: the disease.
- 49:05Speaker 17: What we've been able to show for the first time
- 49:07Speaker 17: is that using this drug pack celisip, we're able to
- 49:11Speaker 17: awaken these cancer cells to make them immune visible, and
- 49:15Speaker 17: by begging them immune visible, we're able to for the
- 49:18Speaker 17: first time allow immunotherapy to function.
- 49:20Speaker 15: This form of cancer predominantly affects women aged under forty
- 49:24Speaker 15: and spreads rapidly to other parts of the body.
- 49:27Speaker 17: Unfortunately, many of these patients only have a few months
- 49:30Speaker 17: to live at the most.
- 49:32Speaker 15: The treatment has advanced a clinical trial recruiting twenty four
- 49:36Speaker 15: women with metastatic triple negative breast cancer. They'll receive the
- 49:40Speaker 15: combination therapy at sites in Queensland.
- 49:43Speaker 17: What we are all about is trying to identify diagnostics
- 49:47Speaker 17: and therapeutics to be able to increase the survival of
- 49:52Speaker 17: these patients so they can spend more time with their families.
- 49:55Speaker 15: A crucial step forward in the fight against one of
- 49:58Speaker 15: the deadliest cancers. Lauren Forbes, Sky News.
- 50:04Speaker 3: All right, have a safe weekend, stay strong. I'll see
- 50:07Speaker 3: you Monday at eight. And here's Paul Murray.