Tony Burke
New Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Brendan Dowling. Photo: LinkedIn
May 19, 2026, 5:56 pm
Government appoints full-time counter-terrorism coordinator
The government’s response was tabled in parliament on Tuesday, five months after the December 14, 2025 Bondi Beach terrorist attack that killed 15 people
By AJN STAFF
Neo-Nazis protest outside the NSW Parliament. Photo: X
May 15, 2026, 3:59 pm
‘White Australia’ neo-Nazi group banned
It is now a criminal offence to support, fund, train, recruit for, join or direct the organisation
By AJN STAFF
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.
May 12, 2026, 8:03 pm
Government commits additional funding for Jewish security
The measures form part of a $604.2 million package over five years to combat the influences of antisemitism, violent extremism and hate in Australian communities
By AJN STAFF
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke.
May 7, 2026, 10:58 am
Government to establish $74 million counter-terrorism online centre
The centre will enable counter-terrorism investigators and intelligence analysts to monitor high-risk online spaces, assess threats and coordinate disruption of extremist content
By AJN STAFF
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses the media at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney, Thursday, April 30, 2026. Photo: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
April 30, 2026, 12:05 pm
Albanese pledges to implement all interim recommendations
Commissioner Virginia Bell's interim report, delivered on Thursday, has made 14 recommendations
By Gareth Narunsky
Ambassador Hillel Newman (right) in conversation with Moshe Kadoury. Photo: Embassy of Israel/Facebook
March 27, 2026, 5:14 pm
Iran war ‘a fight for Western civilisation’
Hillel Newman, who arrived in Australia a month ago, addressed members of the Sydney Jewish community at a Zionist Council of NSW welcome event on Wednesday
By Gareth Narunsky
A rally by Hizb ut-Tahrir which took place in Sydney in May 2021.
March 6, 2026, 9:30 am
Government lists Hizb ut-Tahrir as banned hate group
Other countries that have banned Hizb ut-Tahrir include Egypt, Germany, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signs the condolence book for Bondi victims at Parliament House on December 20, 2025. Photo: Facebook
January 12, 2026, 5:45 pm
Parliament recalled for national security laws on extremism
The new reforms could make it easier for hardline Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir to be banned
By AJN STAFF
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Photo: Facebook.
January 8, 2026, 5:27 pm
Albanese calls Royal Commission into antisemitism
PM bows to mounting pressure from victims' families, Jewish community and leaders across all sectors; appoints former High Court justice Virginia Bell as commissioner
By AJN STAFF
Jillian Segal at the launch of her plan alongside Minister Tony Burke and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in July 2023.
December 20, 2025, 11:39 am
Gonski to lead taskforce on antisemitism in education
'Of course, more could have always been done. Governments aren't perfect. I'm not perfect,' Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday
By AJN STAFF
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces the new laws. Photo: Facebook
December 18, 2025, 4:16 pm
Albanese announces sweeping new hate laws
The comments mark the strongest concession from Albanese yet on the government's response to rising antisemitism since October 7, 2023
By AJN STAFF
Internal damage to the Adass Israel Synagogue after it was firebombed. Photo: Yumi Rosenbaum
November 27, 2025, 3:17 pm
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard listed as state sponsor of terrorism
The listing follows ASIO's assessment that the IRGC orchestrated attacks on Lewis' Continental Kitchen in Sydney and the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne
By AJN STAFF
Right-wing Israeli MK Simcha Rothman, whose three-year ban on entering Australia has sparked a diplomatic spat between the two countries. Photo: Times of Israel.
September 25, 2025, 3:08 pm
Addressing Home Affairs’ troubling policy of blocking Israeli visas
'The Minister is impermissibly seeking to burden the implied freedom of political communication contrary to the Australian Constitution'
By HARRIET WARLOW-SHILL
John Howard addressing the UIA Victoria gala dinner. Photo: Peter Haskin
September 4, 2025, 12:44 pm
Howard and Downer condemn Palestine recognition as betrayal of international law
They accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke of undermining Australia's relationship with Israel for 'short-term domestic political advantage'
By AJN STAFF
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) and members of the local Jewish community visiting the torched Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 10, 2024. (DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)
August 26, 2025, 2:16 pm
Iran found to be behind antisemitic arson attacks
ASIO director-general Mike Burgess: 'Iran and its proxies literally and figuratively lit the matches and fanned the flames'
By Gareth Narunsky
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