PM pledges to adopt all recommendations in Bondi report

The premier curate has promised to follow each the recommendations from a highly anticipated study into the Bondi terror attack, including weapon betterment and intelligence-sharing improvements.

The Royal Commission connected Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion’s interim study delivered 14 recommendations connected Thursday, including expanding information astatine Jewish events and festivals.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the Commonwealth would follow each of the report’s recommendations amid a planetary emergence successful anti-Semitism.

Also recommended was a reappraisal of Australia’s associated counter-terrorism network, including enactment structures, team integration, systems entree and information-sharing arrangements.

Governments should besides prioritise the rollout of nationally accordant weapon laws, the study said.

Of the report’s recommendations, 5 were kept confidential for information reasons.

The onslaught killed 15 radical attending a Hanukkah festival astatine the fashionable formation successful December, prompting the authorities to yet motorboat the wide-ranging inquiry.

Despite recommending reviews of existing systems, erstwhile High Court justice and committee caput Virginia Bell said nary contented “requiring urgent oregon contiguous action” had been identified.

The study recommended prioritising efforts to instrumentality the National Firearms Agreement to present a nationally accordant attack and National Gun Buyback Scheme to acquisition and destruct surplus, recently banned, and amerciable firearms.

Albanese said the National Security Committee had met and would instrumentality each the recommendations applicable to the Commonwealth, urging states and territories to besides prosecute successful reform.

“We support the recommendations – each of them,” helium said.

“I tin guarantee the Australian nationalist that the authorities will bash everything indispensable to support the community.”

Albanese pushed backmost connected suggestions the proposal for accrued information astatine Jewish events showed the authorities had not done capable to combat anti-Semitism.

“There has been a emergence successful anti-Semitism that is simply a planetary improvement that has occurred since the October actions of Hamas,” Albanese said.

“Governments request to respond to it. We are responding to it.”

The premier curate described changes to Australia’s weapon laws arsenic “necessary”, citing the Port Arthur massacre successful 1996 which killed 35 radical arsenic a akin catalyst for reform.

“This week, conscionable a mates of days aft we commemorated the tragedy that occurred astatine Port Arthur, that resulted successful the state coming together with uniform enactment successful a bipartisan way … and the federation is safer due to the fact that of that,” Albanese said.

Sajid Akram was changeable dormant during the Bondi massacre while his son, Naveed Akram, remains earlier the courts connected terrorism and aggregate execution charges.

The committee will participate an archetypal artifact of nationalist hearings successful Sydney from May 4 to 15, addressing Jewish-Australian lived experiences of anti-Semitism.

A last study will beryllium handed down earlier the extremity of the year.

Source: AAP