Tony Burke: assault on a Melbourne synagogue an ‘assault on Australia’
Krishani Dhanji
House affairs minister Tony Burke says the assault on a Melbourne synagogue is an “assault on Australia”.
Chatting with the media, this morning, Burke has repeated his remark that antisemitism has “no place” in Australia, and says the Jewish neighborhood and broader Australian neighborhood have been “harmed” by the arson assault on Friday night time.
“[This] isn’t merely an arson assault; what issues right here is there’s an assault on Australia, an assault on Australian values. And we’re right here at the moment in solidarity to face along with the neighborhood.
This authorities, together with [former attorney-general] Mark Dreyfus within the final time period of parliament, has taken the strongest actions Australia has ever taken in making hate symbols illegal, in making requires violence and hate speech [to] have critical felony penalties. However the job of creating positive we get rid of antisemitism belongs to each single considered one of us.
Burke welcomed the arrests which have taken place, and says he’s been briefed twice now by the Australian Safety Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Federal Police, and has spoken to the Victorian police commissioner and residential affairs boss.
Burke additionally met with neighborhood leaders and the synagogue’s Rabbi Dovid Gutnick, this morning.
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A strong chilly entrance with damaging winds and heavy rainfall is anticipated to succeed in Perth and south-western Western Australia this afternoon, in response to the Bureau of Meteorology.
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Netanyahu: ‘reprehensible antisemitic assaults’ in Australia ‘should be uprooted’
As Guardian Australia’s Daisy Dumas posted earlier, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has referred to as an assault on a Melbourne synagogue “reprehensible” and demanded Anthony Albanese “take all motion” to finish comparable hate crimes.
You possibly can learn extra about Netanyahu’s feedback right here:
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Burke has spoken to Israeli ambassador to Australia in regards to the Melbourne synagogue assault
House affairs minister Tony Burke says the Israeli ambassador to Australia referred to as him on Saturday to thank him for coming to Melbourne instantly.
I had a very good dialog yesterday with the Israeli ambassador. He had heard that I used to be coming at the moment, and rang me to thank me, and he took it as a sign that the federal government was taking this very severely.
As a result of it was Shabbat, my spouse, Skye, and I, we hopped on a airplane not realizing if we’d be welcomed right here, not realizing what the neighborhood would need … And that’s why I needed to be sure that I used to be right here in Melbourne, in order that if the neighborhood determined that they needed us to return, we have been capable of facilitate that instantly.
There have been three assaults on Friday. Burke says authorities haven’t but drawn hyperlinks between them, however he says that it’s clear the assaults have been linked to “bigotry”.
He wouldn’t say whether or not it was a “terrorist assault” on the synagogue and says that’s a name for Victorian police.
There’s a hyperlink in bigotry, there’s a hyperlink in a willingness to both name for violence, to chant violence, or to take violent actions. So they’re very a lot linked in that approach. However at this stage, the authorities are nonetheless investigating whether or not or not there’s a extra formal coordination [of the attacks].
Former attorney-general and senior Jewish MP Mark Dreyfus has joined Burke exterior the synagogue, and says he’s “happy” Burke visited the realm so promptly, which he says exhibits the federal government is taking the difficulty severely. Dreyfus says this could “by no means occur once more”.
Tony Burke: assault on a Melbourne synagogue an ‘assault on Australia’
Krishani Dhanji
House affairs minister Tony Burke says the assault on a Melbourne synagogue is an “assault on Australia”.
Chatting with the media, this morning, Burke has repeated his remark that antisemitism has “no place” in Australia, and says the Jewish neighborhood and broader Australian neighborhood have been “harmed” by the arson assault on Friday night time.
“[This] isn’t merely an arson assault; what issues right here is there’s an assault on Australia, an assault on Australian values. And we’re right here at the moment in solidarity to face along with the neighborhood.
This authorities, together with [former attorney-general] Mark Dreyfus within the final time period of parliament, has taken the strongest actions Australia has ever taken in making hate symbols illegal, in making requires violence and hate speech [to] have critical felony penalties. However the job of creating positive we get rid of antisemitism belongs to each single considered one of us.
Burke welcomed the arrests which have taken place, and says he’s been briefed twice now by the Australian Safety Intelligence Organisation and the Australian Federal Police, and has spoken to the Victorian police commissioner and residential affairs boss.
Burke additionally met with neighborhood leaders and the synagogue’s Rabbi Dovid Gutnick, this morning.
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Labor’s Tony Burke, Anne Aly: East Melbourne synagogue hearth ‘disgusting and cowardly’
The Australian authorities’s House affairs minister, Tony Burke, and multicultural affairs minister, Dr Anne Aly, have launched a joint assertion on the East Melbourne synagogue hearth.
The assertion stated:
Final night time’s arson assault on the East Melbourne Synagogue was disgusting and cowardly.
The very fact it happened whereas individuals, together with youngsters, have been having a Shabbat dinner inside, makes it all of the extra abhorrent.
House affairs minister, Burke, stated:
I condemn final night time’s disgusting assault within the strongest doable phrases. Australians have a proper to really feel protected and protected against violence and bigotry.
Multicultural affairs minister, Aly, stated:
All Australians have a proper to security. Acts of antisemitism violate that proper and will face the total pressure of the regulation.
Qld police warn Bakers Bend residents to depart due to chemical hearth, south of Charleville
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Individuals are suggested to keep away from the realm and residents throughout the exclusion zone are suggested to depart instantly.
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Girl hospitalised after animal assault at Qld’s Darling Downs Zoo
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Emergency providers have been referred to as to the Darling Downs Zoo this morning, and the lady was taken to Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra hospital in a secure situation, the report stated.
Darling Downs Zoo posted on social media:
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Netanyahu says Australian authorities should ‘take all motion’ to stop extra antisemitic assaults
Daisy Dumas
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu says an antisemitic assault on a Melbourne synagogue is “reprehensible” and calls for Anthony Albanese “take all motion” to finish hate crimes.
Victoria police allege a 34-year-old man entered the grounds of the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation on Albert Road at about 8pm on Friday and poured a flammable liquid on the entrance door of the constructing and set it on hearth.
Two different incidents, together with an arrest after an incident between protesters and police at a Melbourne CBD restaurant, additionally happened on Friday night time.
“I view with utmost gravity the antisemitic assaults that occurred final night time in Melbourne, which included tried arson of a synagogue within the metropolis and a violent assault in opposition to an Israeli restaurant by pro-Palestinian rioters”, Netanyahu stated through collection of posts on X in a single day.
“The reprehensible antisemitic assaults, with calls of ‘Dying to the IDF’ and an try and assault a spot of worship, are extreme hate crimes that should be uprooted.
“The State of Israel will proceed to face alongside the Australian Jewish neighborhood, and we demand that the Australian authorities take all motion to cope with the rioters to the fullest extent of the regulation and forestall comparable assaults sooner or later.”
Learn extra right here:
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