National Day of Mourning
We commit ourselves to rebuilding and to protecting the values that define who we are as Australians.
Today, Australians pause together for a National Day of Mourning to honour the 15 innocent people killed in the antisemitic Bondi Beach terrorist attack in December last year, and to stand alongside everyone whose lives were changed forever in those moments.
For many families, for the Jewish community, and for the Bondi community, the grief is still raw.
People are still recovering. Still finding their footing. Still learning how to live with an absence that should never have existed.
The theme chosen by the Chabad community in Bondi, “Light will win – a gathering of unity and remembrance”, captures something deeply Australian. When tragedy strikes, our instinct is not to retreat into ourselves, but to show up for one another.
Today, flags will fly at half-mast across the country. Buildings across the country will be illuminated.
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