Albanese rejects calls for federal royal commission by families of Bondi beach terror attack victims

Labor defends plan for faster, narrower review despite Jewish leaders and families of 11 victims demanding full national royal commissionThe Albanese government has rejected calls by families of Bondi beach terror attack victims for a federal royal commission, claiming it would “provide a platform for the worst voices” of antisemitism.Prime minister Anthony Albanese said a royal commission would be too slow and was not the right vehicle to investigate the attack on a Hanukah festival that killed 15, standing by his preference for a shorter review of intelligence and law enforcement agencies – a move scorned as inadequate by leaders of the Jewish community and many federal MPs. Continue reading...