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A national wake-up call to end the rot

Poster glorifying Bondi terror suspect exposes a deepening hatred Australia can no longer ignore.

Sheina Gutnick lights a candle at the Sydney Opera House vigil on January 22 in honour of her father Reuven Morrison. Photo: Facebook

If the Bondi terror attack was a wake-up about where Australia is heading, our work is cut out for us to stop the rot.

The actions of the alleged gunmen on December 14, 2025, in murdering 15 innocent people and injuring scores more, were the ultimate manifestation of pure evil. And yet, someone has seen it fit to celebrate their bloodthirsty barbarism.

Across Melbourne, around 40 posters featuring the image of one of the terrorists with the caption “Aussie”, knock-offs of a poster series meant to foster inclusion, have sullied the urban landscape.

Think about it. The worst terrorist attack ever in Australia. A nation in mourning. Stories about the victims – including 10-year-old Matilda – broadcast far and wide. And then someone who walks among us, or more than one, has done this. They have intentionally set out to do this.

Like the alleged gunmen themselves, they may have acted independently but their actions reflect a society that is sick.

Additional sickness can be found in the delirium around Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s impending visit. A left-leaning former Israeli Labor leader and dovish peacenik, with no political power or affiliation, has been recast as a genocidal monster by vile hate-fuelled activists who cannot be bothered to learn a thing about the man.

Those same demented sheep who continue to chant “globalise the intifada” though it already arrived at Bondi Beach are calling for him to be barred, while the Greens joined the shameful charade in federal Parliament by attempting to move a motion to revoke his invitation.

The President, his only crime being to represent the people – not the government – of Israel, has seemingly also had his safety threatened, with “Herzog be afraid” scrawled outside the Victorian Parliament.

After violence, celebration of violence. After violence, threats of more violence.

Australia has not learned.

It’s no wonder that as our children returned to school, even non-Jewish schools in Jewish areas required an increased security presence.

We can only hope the coming Royal Commission can begin to scratch the surface of this unholy union of far-left activism, unbridled hatred for the world’s only Jewish nation, celebration of terror and those who threaten more of it.

Ending the rot starts now – lest it ends us.

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