Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Jew-hatred in Australia has now turned into “more than a crisis” for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Australia's Albanese defends antisemitism response
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will address the media in Melbourne from 9am. The Labor leader will visit Swinburne TAFE alongside Skills and Training Minister Andrew Giles. He is set to be grilled on when he knew about the Sydney caravan bomb, after a report on Friday confirmed he had been kept in the dark.
The Prime Minister, Attorney-General and national security committee were all “out of the loop” and left in the dark over the alleged anti-Semitic caravan bomb plot by the AFP for ten days before the investigation was sensationally leaked to the media.
Police are “not happy” details relating to caravan packed with explosives strong enough to create a 40-metre blast radius in Sydney were leaked to media and made public.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised $12.7 million for a theatre and arts centre in Launceston in the seat of Bass, $5 million for Nowra housing projects in Gilmore and $6 million for the “living city” project in Devonport, in the marginal seat of Braddon.
Mr Albanese, who was touring the key outer eastern Melbourne electorate of Aston on Thursday, brushed aside questions relating to the event — which one guest described on social media as a “four hours of exquisite cuisine and hospitality — as “just a dinner”.
you will never be permanently settled in Australia, a policy upheld by subsequent Coalition governments,' he said. 'Anthony Albanese has clearly walked away from this commitment made by his own ...
It's the start of the election year Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers were banking on and the reason why talk of an early poll, either late last year or at the very start of this year, was always misguided.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is being pressured to disclose when he was informed of a potential terror plot against the Jewish community after the discovery of a caravan filled with explosives and a note inside with the targets of Jewish sites in Sydney.
When Peter Dutton was asked this week whether a Coalition government would continue to foster trade relations with China, he said "the relationship with China will be much stronger than it is under the Albanese government".
Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg has accused the federal government of not doing enough to combat rising antisemitism in Australia, following the discovery of a caravan containing explosives and addresses of Jewish targets.