Bondi, leadership and the cost of inaction
Australia’s ability to heal after Bondi depends on whether leaders heed the warnings that went unheeded.
The need for national healing after the Bondi terrorist attack is a responsibility we all share.
The events of 14 December on our most famous beach have exposed a wound that will not be solved quickly. While governments have announced packages of laws, they are a beginning, not an end.
It is an oddity Prime Minister Anthony Albanese remains so insistent that he will not hold a Royal Commission into the events and antisemitism.
Members of the Labor Party should be horrified the Prime Minister is leaving their government exposed to the potential charge they are not doing everything to address the risk from jihadists and Islamist extremists.
The Jewish community is rightly angry at the events that unfolded in Bondi and those responsible for such atrocities. But so much of the anger flows from the frustration of two years of repeating the same basic truth: inaction on antisemitism will lead to tragedy.
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