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Speaker 1: On the business of Australia tightening up its gun laws.

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Speaker 1: It does feel a little bit like this runs the

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Speaker 1: risk of distracting from the bigger problem that they've actually

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Speaker 1: got over there. I mean, I think guns were not

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Speaker 1: the biggest problem on Sunday. Australia already has some of

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Speaker 1: the tightest gun laws in the world. This is actually

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Speaker 1: a race relations and religious problem over there. This attack

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Speaker 1: was predictable. There was no shortage of warnings that this

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Speaker 1: might happen. Jewish synagogues in the last few years have

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Speaker 1: been set alight. You've had the synagogues attacked, the businesses attacked,

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Speaker 1: obviously Jewish people of people who look obviously Jewish have

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Speaker 1: been hassled. Israeli people have been denied customer service. In Melbourne,

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Speaker 1: cars have been set alight in an anti Semitic attack.

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Speaker 1: Two nurses, you might recall, in Sydney lost their jobs

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Speaker 1: for bragging on TikTok that they would kill Jewish patients.

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Speaker 1: Now there is a timeline that Time magazine has printed

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Speaker 1: on its website of all of the events in the

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Speaker 1: last few years leading up to Sunday, and it is

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Speaker 1: actually confronting how much has been going on the Albanesi

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Speaker 1: government knew there was a problem brewing. They asked the

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Speaker 1: Special Envoy on Anti Semitism to give them a set

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Speaker 1: of recommendations. For the last six months that they've had

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Speaker 1: those recommendations, they've done basically nothing about it. So tightening

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Speaker 1: up the gun laws is what they're doing as a

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Speaker 1: knee jerk thing. Now, that is not a bad thing.

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Speaker 1: Checking up a license holder every few years rather than

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Speaker 1: never has got to be a good thing. But if

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Speaker 1: the Aussies think that what's just been announced is the

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Speaker 1: fix for what has just happened on Sunday, they are

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Speaker 1: misguided and they are allowing themselves to be distracted from

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Speaker 1: what is a very very big problem in their country.

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