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Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamiot with the

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Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi introduced a suite

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Speaker 1: of reforms designed to crack down on hate speech following

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Speaker 1: a meeting of the National Cabinet on Monday.

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Speaker 2: A summary of the legacy of measures that will be

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Speaker 2: considered creating an aggravated offense for hate preaching advocating violence

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Speaker 2: against protected groups, increasing penalties for existing offenses for hate speech,

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Speaker 2: advocating violence or property destruction against protected groups, making hate

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Speaker 2: motivation a factor in sentencing for com Wealth crimes, with

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Speaker 2: options to limit this to online threat and harassment crimes

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Speaker 2: as announced, to expand to all common Wealth crimes if

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Speaker 2: required if required. We want to list prohibited hate organizations

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Speaker 2: to make it a criminal offense to join, recruit or

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Speaker 2: support an organization listed by the Home Affairs Minister and

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Speaker 2: the Attorney General. Racial vilification and promoting racial supremacy offense.

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Speaker 2: We want the power to cancel visas where the Home

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Speaker 2: Affairs Minister suspects a person as engaged in vilification, hate speech,

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Speaker 2: promoting violence, displaying hate symbols, or associating with a terrorist

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Speaker 2: organization or prohibited hate group. We're looking at changes to

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Speaker 2: hate symbols offenses as well, and also looking at changes

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Speaker 2: to the Customs Act to ban importing extremist material or

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Speaker 2: hate symbols.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister said the new laws would be drafted

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Speaker 1: as soon as possible, but flagged the government will engage

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Speaker 1: in a period of community consultation. Albanesi again resisted calls

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Speaker 1: to establish a federal Royal commission into the rise in

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Speaker 1: anti Semitism, the precipitated last Sunday's terror attack at Bondi Beach.

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Speaker 2: We want urgency and unity, not division and delay. We

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Speaker 2: have commenced already the Richardson Review. The New South Wales

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Speaker 2: government have announced a Royal Commissioner and the federal government

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Speaker 2: will cooperate fully with that.

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Speaker 1: In a response to a question by The Australian's Canberra

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Speaker 1: Bureau chief Richard Ferguson, the Prime Minister said he takes

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Speaker 1: responsibility for the deadly attack where two government allegedly motivated

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Speaker 1: by extremist ideology allegedly opened fire on a Haneker event

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Speaker 1: at Bondi Beach.

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Speaker 3: Prime Minister, you said that you're sorry for the Jewish

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Speaker 3: community's experience the Foreign Minister. Today, Alster said she was

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Speaker 3: sorry for how people experienced her actions when it came

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Speaker 3: to hers to Israel. I have no doubt that you're

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Speaker 3: sorry for their experiences. But are you sorry for the

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Speaker 3: mistakes your government has meet in handling the anti Semitism crisis?

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Speaker 2: So wait take responsibility for everything that occurs on our watch.

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Speaker 2: We have taken a range of actions. We are taking

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Speaker 2: further actions, some of which we have announced today.

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Speaker 1: In a fiery address earlier on Monday, Jewish Liberal MP

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Speaker 1: Julian Lisa slammed the Prime Minister's reluctance to establish a

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Speaker 1: Federal Royal Commission.

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Speaker 4: The so called Prime Minister of this country, Anthony Albanezi,

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Speaker 4: who never misses an opportunity, to miss an opportunity. The

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Speaker 4: Jewish community of this country cannot survive on the crumbs

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Speaker 4: of this government and this appalling prime Minister, who is

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Speaker 4: always late to the party and who wants the Jewish

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Speaker 4: community of this country to live in his half measures.

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Speaker 4: For two years, We've been fighting his half measures for

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Speaker 4: two years. We've put forward proposals in the Parliament to

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Speaker 4: improve the security of Australians and he's voted consistently against them.

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Speaker 4: He's dragged his feet, he's claimed credit for them that

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Speaker 4: were not his idea or that he did, having been dragged,

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Speaker 4: kicking and screaming, and the community is sick and tired

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Speaker 4: of it. I don't want to see the memories of

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Speaker 4: the fifteen Australians who died last Sunday. I don't want

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Speaker 4: to see their memories being desecrated by this half measured

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Speaker 4: departmental review that is proposed by this Prime Minister. We

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Speaker 4: need nothing short of a Royal commission now.

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Speaker 1: Lisa lashed the Prime Minister's decision instead to order a

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Speaker 1: departmental review of Australia's intelligence capabilities.

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Speaker 4: We can't have a situation for one more day in

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Speaker 4: this country where the Jewish community, where any Australian is

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Speaker 4: forced to live in the half measures and the delayed

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Speaker 4: action and the talking out of both sides of their

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Speaker 4: mouth that this Prime Minister has given us repeatedly for

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Speaker 4: two years, Late to act on the dosing, late to

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Speaker 4: act on the banning of Nazi symbols and salutes, done

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Speaker 4: nothing about the antisemitism that is rampant on our campuses,

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Speaker 4: still even now, does nothing about the due hatred that

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Speaker 4: is everywhere in the arts and cultural sector, and rather

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Speaker 4: than looking at the root causes of what caused those

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Speaker 4: government to pick up those weapons in the first place,

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Speaker 4: that only a Royal commission will get to, he calls

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Speaker 4: for another departmental review. This is the most shameful act

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Speaker 4: in the history of our nation. Australia stands humiliated by

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Speaker 4: the failure of leadership of this man, by the failure

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Speaker 4: of leadership which has led to the extraordinary deaths in

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Speaker 4: a terrorist act on the shores of Bondai in this

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Speaker 4: great city of ours.

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Speaker 1: The Member for Barrara in Northern Sydney urged the PM

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Speaker 1: to recall parliament as a matter of urgency.

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Speaker 4: We demand the Prime Minister bring the Parliament back today

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Speaker 4: to do what Chris Mins is doing, to listen to

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Speaker 4: Susan Lee, to extend the hand of bipartisanship, and for

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Speaker 4: once in his life, to take the real action that

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Speaker 4: is needed to defeat the anti Semitism that we are

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Speaker 4: seeing and we have seen in this country for far

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Speaker 4: too long.

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Speaker 1: Federal Opposition leader Susan Lee has offered to sit down

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Speaker 1: with Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi before Christmas to discuss the

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Speaker 1: terms of reference for a Federal Royal commission. The Liberal

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Speaker 1: leader also urged the PM to recall the Federal Parliament

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Speaker 1: to pass a suite of new legislation designed to combat

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Speaker 1: extremist attacks.

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Speaker 5: Prime Minister, the time for words really is finished. We

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Speaker 5: have work to do. In order to honor the Dad.

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Speaker 5: We must confront uncomfortable truths, hard truths. That's what this

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Speaker 5: Commonwealth Royal Commission is about.

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Speaker 1: New South Wales Premier Chris Mins convened the state's parliament

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Speaker 1: in an extraordinary two day sitting period to rush through

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Speaker 1: sweeping changes to gun licensing, hate speech and protest laws.

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Speaker 1: There were rumblings on Monday the state opposition and some

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Speaker 1: crossbenches would oppose the changes, but the Premiere has defended

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Speaker 1: the changes, saying new legislation is necessary to prevent another tragedy.

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Speaker 6: In those circumstances, I do believe it leads to a

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Speaker 6: culture and environment of heightened disunity and an invitation to violence.

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Speaker 6: And ultimately I know that these changes are going to

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Speaker 6: be met with opposition, but I strongly believe that we

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Speaker 6: have to do everything we can to ensure that words

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Speaker 6: that are said at a rally are not used by

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Speaker 6: somebody at a later point for violent retribution on Sydney's trees.

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Speaker 1: Chris Minn said a new South Wales Royal commission into

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Speaker 1: the Bondai Beach massacre would encompass federal agencies like ASIO

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Speaker 1: and the Australian Federal Police.

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Speaker 6: We need a comprehensive investigation. We need to understand the

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Speaker 6: relationship between our agencies and the Commonwealth, what these two

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Speaker 6: individuals were doing overseas, what information was collected prior to

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Speaker 6: these terrible crimes, and needs to include the kindling the

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Speaker 6: fire that spread that saw so many people being killed.

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Speaker 6: It clearly needs to examine closely the inputs that led

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Speaker 6: to this anti Semitic active hate.

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Speaker 1: In Victoria, Premier Justinta Allen announced her government will crack

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Speaker 1: down on hate speech and conduct a review of the

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Speaker 1: state's gun laws. Victorian police will be given special powers

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Speaker 1: to disrupt protests under the changes, and new laws will

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Speaker 1: empower authorities to identify quote cowards who anonymously post anti

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Speaker 1: Semitic abuse online.

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Speaker 7: We won't ever tackle this with a series of short

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Speaker 7: term actions. We need a long term commitment and we

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Speaker 7: as a government under we need to be held accountable

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Speaker 7: to it. We want long term goals that are up

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Speaker 7: in lights for everyone to see and for everyone in

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Speaker 7: Victoria too to embrace and to work on together, jew

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Speaker 7: and non jew alike.

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Speaker 1: Thousands of bouquets and tributes laid by mourners in the

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Speaker 1: wake of last Sunday's massacre were cleared away from the

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Speaker 1: Bondai Pavilion forecourt on Monday morning. A Waverley Council spokesperson

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Speaker 1: said the council will work with the Jewish community on

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Speaker 1: plans for a permanent memorial. Check out those stories live

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