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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) holds a press conference with families who lost loved ones in the January 29, 2025 DCA plane crash on December 15, 2025 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. The bipartisan press conference addressed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) language, which changes military airspace policy. Heather Diehl/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Heather Diehl / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Australia’s ‘tolerance of anti-Semitism resulted in massacre’

America’s pro-Israel voices sound a warning: Australia’s recognition of Palestine and tolerance of ‘globalise the Intifada’ chants have led to bloodshed at Bondi Beach.

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SYDNEY AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - Monday, 15 December 2025 The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese pictured holding a press conference at the Commonwealth Parliament Offices in Sydney this afternoon. Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

PM did not raise anti-Semitism strategy with premiers at National Cabinet post-Bondi

Anthony Albanese did not raise a six-month old plan on combating anti-Semitism at an emergency post-Bondi massacre national cabinet meeting, with state leaders forced to push the Prime Minister on what tangible steps the nation could take.

Geoff Chambers, Richard Ferguson and Michael McKenna

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Anthony Albanese will under take gun reform.

PM declares anti-Semitism ‘didn’t start in 2022’ as Burke gets booed

Anthony Albanese says anti-Jewish hate in Australia did not start the year his government was elected, as his Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke was told he had ‘blood’ on his hands as he tried to lay a wreath at the site of the Bondi Beach terror attack | WATCH

Geoff Chambers, Richard Ferguson and Thomas Henry

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(FILES) Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attends a press conference with Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister James Marape after the signing of the Pukpuk treaty at Parliament House in Canberra on October 6, 2025. Australia's prime minister proposed

Here’s six policies the PM should implement, starting today

The PM should recall parliament and hold an urgent debate giving every member of the House of Representatives and the Senate the opportunity to go on the record about where they stand on the security of Jews in Australia.

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CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 13: In this handout image provided by New Zealand Police, collected firearms are seen at Riccarton Racecourse on July 13, 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is the first firearms collection event to be held in New Zealand following changes to gun laws, providing firearms owners the initial opportunity of many to hand-in prohibited firearms for buy-back and amnesty. The Christchurch event is one of 258 events that will run across the country over the next three months.The NZ Government will pay owners between 25 per cent and 95 per cent of a set base price, depending on condition. It will also compensate dealers and pay for some weapons to be modified to make them legal. The amnesty ends on December 20. (Photo by New Zealand Police/Getty Images)

PM’s cowardice: Gun control will be a wonderful distraction from actually tackling anti-Semitism

Every facile equivocation, every weasel word avoiding actions, now rings out like the heavens condemning the Albanese government.

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PM’s anti-Semitism response: ‘too late’ and ‘weak’

PM’s anti-Semitism response: ‘too late’ and ‘weak’

Anthony Albanese faces sharp criticism for a two-year ‘blind eye’ to anti-Semitism, with calls for immediate, decisive action, not ‘weasel words’.

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TOPSHOT - Members of the Jewish community mourn the victims of a shooting at Bondi Beach, during a vigil at the Chabad of Bondi in Sydney on December 15, 2025. Australia's leaders agreed on December 15 to tougher gun laws after the country's worst mass shooting in almost three decades saw a father and son open fire on a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach, killing 15 people including a child. (Photo by Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Terror strikes at the heart of our egalitarian nation

Anthony Albanese is not an anti-Semite, but he has failed to grasp the dimensions of the challenge posed by the events of October 7, 2023, and failed in his most important duty – to keep the nation safe.

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SYDNEY AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - Sunday, 14 December 2025 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pictured speaking at the press conference at the Police Executive Office, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer

Islamic hate preachers must be silenced and anti-Semites booted from the country

It will take clear action rather than words for the PM to repair his relationship with Jewish Australians and their supporters, who have lost faith in his leadership.

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TOPSHOT - A woman holds her baby in a blanket after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. Australian police said two people were in custody following reports of multiple gunshots on December 14 at Sydney's famed Bondi Beach, urging the public to take shelter. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Two years of political failure have left us all less safe

Publicly and privately I have begged Anthony Albanese to confront this anti-Semitic scourge. What can he do now to overcome two years of indolence and cowardice? How many more people will suffer?

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - December 14, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Acting Deputy Commissioner Nigel Ryan, Director-General of Security of Australia, Mike Burgess hold a press conference after the Bondi Terrorist attack at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

PM pledges to eradicate anti-Semitism

Anthony Albanese has vowed to “eradicate” anti-Semitism after the Bondi Beach terror attack, but Israeli leaders have blamed his government for creating the conditions that led to the massacre.

Geoff Chambers, Noah Yim and Jacquelin Magnay

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - December 14, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Acting Deputy Commissioner Nigel Ryan, Director-General of Security of Australia, Mike Burgess hold a press conference after the Bondi Terrorist attack at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘No more weasel words’: Albanese must be a leader

The time for weasel words and conflation from Labor is over. The time to unleash every power and asset against those who want to harm innocent Australians is now.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 14: A Police Riot Squad member attends the scene of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. Two gunmen dressed in black fired several shots at Sydney's world-famous Bondi Beach, causing at least 10 injuries and three deaths, and setting off mass panic on a Sunday evening. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)

PM calls emergency NSC meeting to plan response to massacre

Anthony Albanese has to manage the aftermath of a dreadful massacre. Others will reasonably ask what steps could a more engaged government have taken to prevent such crimes in the first place.

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Attorney-General of Australia Michelle Rowland, National AG meeting, 1 William Street, Brisbane. Picture: Liam Kidston

Crunch time for PM on expenses

Anthony Albanese must grasp the chance to reform entitlements.

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DREXEL HILL, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 29: Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee moderates a roundtable discussion with Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Drexelbrook Catering & Event Center on October 29, 2024 in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. With one week until Election Day, Trump is campaigning for re-election in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Trump’s Israel envoy slams ‘disgraceful’ PM

World leaders have condemned the deadly Bondi Beach shooting while Donald Trump’s Israel envoy attacks the Prime Minister for ignoring the attack’s anti-Semitic nature.

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A woman holds her baby in a blanket after a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. Australian police said two people were in custody following reports of multiple gunshots on December 14 at Sydney's famed Bondi Beach, urging the public to take shelter. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP)

‘A sacred moment of light has been turned into darkness’

Jewish community members have spoken of their ‘profound grief’ and anguish after gunmen opened fire on hundreds of people during a Chanukah event at Bondi Beach.

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Health Minister Mark Butler with Anthony Albanese and Sports Minister Anika Wells at a Matildas game on 2023-08-12.

Butler billed taxpayers to fly family on Matildas weekend

Anthony Albanese is under pressure to probe if Attorney-General Michelle Rowland broke the Ministerial Code of Conduct and should be sacked over contravening family reunion rules, as a Nationals frontbencher is found to have spent $12,000 on family flights to Perth.

Noah Yim and Elizabeth Pike

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Post-truth PM breeds rank culture of deceit and deflection

From ISIS brides to expenses, under Anthony Albanese’s leadership, fabrication has changed from an aberration into an acceptable mode of civic debate.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - December 11, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Anika Wells hold a press conference in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘He lied’: Albanese under fire over pre-election travel rule change

A Liberal Senator has lashed the Prime Minister over revelations the government quietly made changes to travel expense rules just weeks before calling the May federal election.

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**EMBARGOED FOR 13/12/2025** 12 December 2025; Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers his message of fiscal restraint from Parliament House while ministers Don Farrell and Anika Wells enjoy tropical holidays, highlighting the disconnect between the government's call for Australians to tighten their belts and ministerial spending behaviour ahead of the MYEFO mini-budget. Sources: iStock and Supplied. Artwork by Frank Ling. Ratio 4:3. For DIGITAL or PRINT.

Chalmers faces tough new inflation reality

The Treasurer confronts an economic reality check, forcing a dramatic shift in the mid-year budget update from his original script.

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TOMAGO , AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos- DECEMBER 12, 2025. The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Tomago Aluminium. Picture: NewsWire via PMO

Albanese plays cheap power trick on taxpayers

The Prime Minister has committed taxpayers to an uncosted decade-long subsidy of Rio Tinto’s electricity bill to save 1000 aluminium smelter jobs.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - September 3, 2025: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price poses with an Australian Flag at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Ley walks the line on migration as moderates, conservatives clash

Sussan Ley is understood to have promised colleagues the Coalition will avoid discriminatory migration policies or shrill rhetoric.

Geoff Chambers and Greg Brown

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 26, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese holds a mock press conference for BTN with students from around Australia ahead of the the under 16Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s social media ban at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

No largesse held back, no perks left behind … Albanese digs in again

New analysis reveals most family travel expenses aren’t claimed by young parents, undermining the Prime Minister’s key defence of the controversial entitlements system.

Jack Quail, Noah Yim and Elizabeth Pike

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - December 11, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Anika Wells hold a press conference in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Buck-passing PM risks electoral stranglehold

Anthony Albanese, who won 94 seats in May and watched the Coalition self-immolate for seven months, is passing the buck on an expenses scandal that threatens his post-election honeymoon.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 12, 2025: Federal Health Minister Mark Butler at the National Health Ministers meeting in Brisbane. Picture: NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Hospital pass for funding stoush to PM, premiers

High-stakes hospital funding talks have failed to land a deal after tense negotiations in Brisbane, with states and territories saying the current offer is ‘not sufficient’.

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Anthony Albanese has revealed a second Labor minister has referred their expenses for IPEA review.

Albo’s huge call amid expense scandal

The Prime Minister has revealed a second Labor minister has referred their expenses for review, as he seeks advice from the watchdog.

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Anthony Albanese has revealed a second Labor minister has referred their expenses for IPEA review.

Albo’s huge call amid expense scandal

The Prime Minister has revealed a second Labor minister has referred their expenses for review, as he seeks advice from the watchdog.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 11, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Health minister Mark Butler during a tour of a newly opened Medicare Urgent Care Clinic in Marrickville on Thursday. Picture: NewsWire / Nikki Short

States reject PM’s hospital deal, call ‘national shame’ on bed block

Ministers to meet for high-stakes talks on hospital funding as Anthony Albanese urges ‘good faith’ negotiations. But the latest funding offer remains short of state demands.

Penny Timms and Lachlan Leeming

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - July 21, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley attend the last post ceremony at the Australian War memorial in Canberra . Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Albanese must strike deal with Ley on travel expenses claims

Anthony Albanese, who is on the gold-plated pension scheme, is a traditionalist who believes federal politicians should not be asked to do more for less.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells speak to the media during a visit to St John Paul II College in Canberra, Thursday, December 11, 2025. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

PM accused of being a protectionist for his ministers on entitlements

Anthony Albanese has dodged calls to overhaul entitlements as analysis reveals more than a third of Labor’s $1m family travel bill was not used for dependants or partners with young children.

Geoff Chambers, Noah Yim and Jack Quail

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - December 4, 2025: Senator Sarah Hanson-Young during the Triple Zero service outage, Environment and Communications References Committee at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

‘Genuine concern’: Albanese warns on Hanson-Young’s expense claims

While the Prime Minister has weighed into Sarah Hanson-Young’s use of taxpayer-funded entitlements, Larissa Waters declined to say whether the Greens senator should refund taxpayers.

Jack Quail and Noah Yim

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