Frank wrote on Dec 24
th, 2025 at 11:21am:
Vic wrote on Dec 24
th, 2025 at 10:32am:
So, here are the Coalition’s Terms of Referrence for a Royal Commission:
"The Coalition’s draft terms of reference propose a broad inquiry into:
The nature, prevalence, and drivers of antisemitism in Australia, including online, media, arts, education, and cultural sectors.
Commonwealth, state, and territory government, law enforcement, and intelligence responses to rising antisemitism and the Bondi attack.
Radical Islamic extremism and other extremist movements, including how immigration, visa, and citizenship processes may have contributed to threats.
The legal framework surrounding hate speech, vilification, and incitement, including the adequacy of current laws.
Circumstances leading up to and following the Bondi Beach attack, including coordination between agencies and victim support.”
Can most sane people see why Labor would not have an RC if it were solely based around Bondi? Can people see that this really focuses on one event with other issues circling around the key focus - being Bondi? Can people see this is just a lame attempt to score political points rather than a honest attempt to bring a cohesive quality to look at what happened?
I believe there should be a Royal Commission. But the TOR need to focus on far more wide ranging things than what the Coalition have pushed out in a millisecond of thought.
We want the heads of ASIS, ASIO, DSD and all Government Agencies involved in bringing people to Australia, checking their characters, and determining their likelihood of assimilating into our way of life bought to task.
We need the people of Australia to be able to put questions to their MPs about their concerns and we need those questions consolidated and grouped into whatever government “box” they fit in, so we can get an idea what the thought processes are/were for allowing people to settle here
I was never a fan of John Howard but to paraphrase him “ We decide who comes to Australia and the conditions under which they come” may not have been appropriate at the time He stated them, but it seems they are now.
Until the Terms of Reference become a valid set of statements underpinning a wide ranging RC, then Albanese is correct in denying the Coalition request for one as merely political point scoring
Including Bondi doesn't mean, as you twist it for some unknown reason, that it is
solely about Bondi. I don't see how you can honestly say that it is just political point scoring. What would you EXCLUDE from the preview of such a Royal Commission?
It would be pretty strange if the very massacre that would trigger a Royal Commission was expressly excluded.
A Royal Commission cannot be controlled by a government, the public can make submissions and the RC can compell witnesses and documents to aper/be submitted.
The Coalition’s draft terms of reference propose a broad inquiry into:
The nature, prevalence, and drivers of antisemitism in Australia, including online, media, arts, education, and cultural sectors.
Commonwealth, state, and territory government, law enforcement, and intelligence responses to rising antisemitism and the
Bondi attack.
Radical Islamic extremism and other extremist movements, including how immigration, visa, and citizenship processes
may have contributed to threats.
The legal framework surrounding hate speech, vilification, and incitement, including the adequacy of current laws.
Circumstances leading up to and following the
Bondi Beach
attack, including coordination between agencies and victim support.
Two of the Coalitions TOR specifically point to Bondi Beach. 1 of them infers Bondi Beach. The last one is hate speech etc.
If you are going to have a RC, then let's do it properly, with Terms of Reference that do what we want it to do.