https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/pm/pm-again-rejects-bondi-royal-commissio...


Dnarever wrote on Dec 24^th, 2025 at 8:29pm:


“ Mr Albanese continues to resist the call of many Jewish leaders and the Opposition for a Royal Commission into antisemitism and the Bondi attack.

He maintains the review he has commissioned will be quicker”

The  cover up is in full swing and the outcome from his secret review will probably not only prove he  and his government has nothing to answer it will likely advise his single handed save the country ?

'The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation's (ASIO) departmental appropriation for the 2024–25 budget year is approximately A$594.3 million. This figure represents the government's direct funding to the agency to run its operations'.

The value of ASIO protection of Bondi was roughly 29 cents.

Looks like the anus Albo has got away with murder.

I reckon the relentless pressure on Albo to hold a Commonwealth Royal Commission will eventually see him cave in.

It actually makes it worse the longer he tries to dig in.

Imagine if the boot was on the other foot!

Do you think Albo would be demanding a RC if the Libs had been in office at the time of the Bondi murders? 

Captain Nemo wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 9:48am:


I doubt it, but even if he did, what do you think the Terms of Reference would be?   The ones proposed by the Libs or Terms more far reaching than those which were mainly Bondi focussed?   If we are going to have a RC - and I think we should - then the TOR need to encompass a lot more than what happened at Bondi

Jasin wrote on Dec 29^th, 2025 at 9:59am:


No one ‘wins’ in the Bondi slaughter - because that is what it was.   But, you are right in mentioning the TV Hype and beat-up.   Albo and the ALP just shut up - let Australia process and grieve and let Sussssan and the LNP make zoobs ( a zoob is a dick with ears) of themselves.    Susssaaan and the LNP should have just left it alone, come back with decent and acceptable proposals and worked with the Government just as happened in the past.    Watch the Opposition give the Government a huge surge in the coming polls.

Zoob

Exactly VIC. This happens all the time. The whingefests and chest beatings are only done on the Media.
Lazy Australia NEVER does anything beyond that.
We're so lazy, we even got Americans out protesting and rallying for Bondi for us.
The Cronulla riots are the only instance the Australian people stood up for themselves and they got punished for it, not the perpetrators of the cause of it.

The attack at Bondi Beach on December 14 that killed 15 people and injured dozens more stands as the worst act of terrorism on Australian soil. It demands the most serious response the state can offer. That response is a federal royal commission.

A review, even one led by a figure as capable as Dennis Richardson, relies on co-operation. A royal commission compels evidence. Witnesses appear under oath. Documents are subpoenaed. Jurisdictional boundaries that often frustrate accountability are dissolved. A judicial appointee also would be best placed to navigate the prosecution and inquest that is already under way.

There is a significant difference between standing in a witness box under oath or affirmation, being cross-examined by counsel, and passively replying to a request from a reviewer, no matter how good the reviewer might be.

There are sanctions for lying under oath that are not available to a reviewer. Truth is not requested; it is required.

Bondi will not simply raise questions of intelligence failures, administrative arrangements or resources. Deeper questions must be asked, in public, of officials and their political masters. We need to know whether part of the problem is a failure of understanding or, worse, deliberate decisions to ignore uncomfortable truths.

To an old cop, that failure seems to start at the top. Unlike the Hilton bombing, we know the Bondi Beach victims were deliberately targeted because they were Jewish by two men who self-identified as followers of Islamic State.

This draws a big question mark over the reported statement by AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett: “These are the alleged actions of those who have aligned themselves to a terrorist organisation, not a religion.”

This tortured distinction seems to infect the highest levels of government and is deeply troubling. It reflects a conceptual error that goes to the heart of Australia’s counter-terrorism posture.

The last time I checked – and I know I am now long in the tooth – ISIS is a Sunni Islamist extremist organisation that commits acts of terrorism in the name of a rigid and violent interpretation of Islam.

This is not merely a criminal gang or a political movement. It is a religiously motivated extremist organisation that uses terror to prosecute a theological world view. This is not conjecture. It is the organisation’s own self-description, confirmed by years of intelligence reporting, court findings and global experience.

To suggest that an attack carried out in the name of such an organisation is somehow detached from religion is to misunderstand the threat. If law enforcement misunderstands the nature of the crime it is trying to prevent, it will fail to prevent the next one.

Motivation is not an academic exercise. It determines how threats are identified, how communities are protected, how prisons are managed, how intelligence priorities are set and how early warning signs are interpreted.

Counter-terrorism depends on clarity of purpose. Confusion at the top cascades downward.

For the past 15 years I have worked closely with some of the more prominent Jewish families in this country, salt-of-the-earth Aussies who have built this nation, physically and culturally. They are household names and extremely generous people.

Since the October 7 attacks on Israel in 2023, my friends in the Jewish community tell me they have witnessed a growth in anti-Semitism never before experienced in their lifetime in Australia.

They know what we can all see: most of the victims at Bondi Beach were Jewish. That fact is not incidental. It places the attack squarely within a global pattern of anti-Semitic violence that intensified dramatically after the Hamas attacks of October 7. Jewish communities around the world are under attack because they are Jewish.

We need a royal commission to examine every scrap of evidence to determine how best to protect our community and ensure Australia does not drift into denial. Democracies are weakened not by inquiry but by avoidance.

Bondi deserves more than procedural reassurance. It demands the highest standard of scrutiny our system can provide. That standard is a federal royal commission.  Anything less risks telling Australians that some truths are too difficult to face.

Mick Keelty is a former AFP commissioner.