Tony Burke: assault on a Melbourne synagogue an ‘assault on Australia’
Krishani Dhanji
Residence affairs minister Tony Burke says the assault on a Melbourne synagogue is an “assault on Australia”.
Talking to the media, this morning, Burke has repeated his remark that antisemitism has “no place” in Australia, and says the Jewish group and broader Australian group had been “harmed” by the arson assault on Friday night time.
“[This] is just not merely an arson assault; what issues right here is there may be an assault on Australia, an assault on Australian values. And we’re right here at this time in solidarity to face along with the group.
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 severe felony penalties. However the job of creating positive we remove antisemitism belongs to each single one in every 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 group leaders and the synagogue’s Rabbi Dovid Gutnick, this morning.
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Former assistant treasurer and monetary providers minister Stephen Jones. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
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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 may learn extra about Netanyahu’s feedback right here:
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Krishani Dhanji
Burke has spoken to Israeli ambassador to Australia concerning the Melbourne synagogue assault
Residence 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 dialog yesterday with the Israeli ambassador. He had heard that I used to be coming at this time, 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 aircraft not realizing if we might be welcomed right here, not realizing what the group would need … And that’s why I needed to make it possible for I used to be right here in Melbourne, in order that if the group determined that they needed us to come back, we had been in a position to 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 had been linked to “bigotry”.
Federal member for Melbourne Sara Witty, minister for dwelling affairs Tony Burke and former attorney-general Mark Dreyfus communicate to media exterior the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation concerning the assault. {Photograph}: James Ross/AAP
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 means. 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 world so promptly, which he says reveals the federal government is taking the problem severely. Dreyfus says this could “by no means occur once more”.
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Tony Burke: assault on a Melbourne synagogue an ‘assault on Australia’
Krishani Dhanji
Residence affairs minister Tony Burke says the assault on a Melbourne synagogue is an “assault on Australia”.
Talking to the media, this morning, Burke has repeated his remark that antisemitism has “no place” in Australia, and says the Jewish group and broader Australian group had been “harmed” by the arson assault on Friday night time.
“[This] is just not merely an arson assault; what issues right here is there may be an assault on Australia, an assault on Australian values. And we’re right here at this time in solidarity to face along with the group.
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 severe felony penalties. However the job of creating positive we remove antisemitism belongs to each single one in every 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 group leaders and the synagogue’s Rabbi Dovid Gutnick, this morning.
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Girl bitten by animal at Queensland zoo now in secure situation in hospital
After an incident we posted about earlier at Queensland’s Darling Downs Zoo this morning – the place a girl was taken to hospital after being bitten by an animal – Queensland ambulance service has stated:
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Labor’s Tony Burke, Anne Aly: East Melbourne synagogue fireplace ‘disgusting and cowardly’
The Australian authorities’s Residence affairs minister, Tony Burke, and multicultural affairs minister, Dr Anne Aly, have launched a joint assertion on the East Melbourne synagogue fireplace.
Multicultural minister Anne Aly joined dwelling affairs minister Tony Burke in condemning the assault on the synagogue. {Photograph}: Mick Tsikas/AAP
The assertion stated:
Final night time’s arson assault on the East Melbourne Synagogue was disgusting and cowardly.
The actual fact it befell whereas individuals, together with kids, had been having a Shabbat dinner inside, makes it all of the extra abhorrent.
Residence 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 shielded from violence and bigotry.
Multicultural affairs minister, Aly, stated:
All Australians have a proper to security. Acts of antisemitism violate that proper and may face the total power of the regulation.
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Individuals are suggested to keep away from the world and residents inside the exclusion zone are suggested to go away instantly.
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Girl hospitalised after animal assault at Qld’s Darling Downs Zoo
A girl has been taken to hospital, after being bitten by an animal believed to be an enormous cat, at a Queensland zoo, in keeping with ABC information.
Emergency providers had been referred to as to the Darling Downs Zoo this morning, and the girl was taken to Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra hospital in a secure situation, the report stated.
Darling Downs Zoo posted on social media:
As a result of unexpected circumstances, the zoo will probably be closed all day at this time.
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Netanyahu says Australian authorities should ‘take all motion’ to forestall 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 Avenue at about 8pm on Friday and poured a flammable liquid on the entrance door of the constructing and set it on fireplace.
Two different incidents, together with an arrest after an incident between protesters and police at a Melbourne CBD restaurant, additionally befell 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 towards an Israeli restaurant by pro-Palestinian rioters”, Netanyahu stated through sequence of posts on X in a single day.
“The reprehensible antisemitic assaults, with calls of ‘Loss of life to the IDF’ and an try to 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 group, 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.”
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