Haddad was found to have breached racial hatred laws in 2023 when he described Jews as “vile” and “treacherous” in the wake of the October 7 attacks.<\/p>\n
In a resurfaced video from 2019, Naveed could be seen handing out pamphlets for a movement linked to Haddad, in which he said: \u201cAllah will reward you for whatever actions you do in his cause.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInshallah, this will save you on the day of judgement when everyone will be asking where\u2019s the hope, this will come to you on the day of judgement,\u201d Naveed said.<\/p>\n
It was also revealed on Tuesday that the father-son attackers had travelled to the Philippines in November, where Islamic State East Asia<\/a> has been known to hold a presence.<\/p>\n The Philippines has been a breeding ground for Islamic militancy and was ranked 19th in the world in the latest Global Terrorism Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n It also served for years as a training base for Abu Sayyaf, which was responsible for attacks on Australians, including the Bali Bombings and Australian Embassy bombing.<\/p>\n “The reasons why they went to the Philippines, and the purpose of that, and where they went when they were there, is under investigation at the moment,” Mr Lanyon said.<\/p>\n In response to the attack, police have ramped up Operation Shelter, providing patrols around Jewish places of worship and key locations in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.<\/p>\n ‘You can’t legislate people’s hearts’: John Howard<\/p>\n In response to the horrific terror attack on Sunday, the Albanese government has since announced it will seek to reform national gun laws<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\n However, former prime minister John Howard blasted the reaction, accusing the government of using gun reform as a political diversion.<\/p>\n Mr Howard said the central issue exposed by the terror attack was not firearms regulation but antisemitism, and he laid responsibility at the feet of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.<\/p>\n He warned the government\u2019s sudden focus on tightening gun laws risked becoming an excuse to avoid confronting what he described as its deeper moral failure.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’ve now been treated to the big attempt at a diversion, changes to gun laws now,\u201d Mr Howard told Sky News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can’t legislate people’s hearts\u2026 They (Australian Jews) want leaders who not only say the right things, but mean what they say.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Howard became renowned for overhauling national firearm laws within 12 days of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, which cost 25 victims their lives.<\/p>\n He accused Mr Albanese of political equivocation in his response to the Bondi Beach attack, describing him as having been \u201cMr Yes, but maybe\u201d on antisemitism.<\/p>\n \u201cPart of the criticism I have of this government is that it\u2019s backfilled and filled,\u201d Mr Howard said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf he\u2019d have shown a little more determination from the beginning \u2026 perhaps some of the antisemitism that has spread over the last couple of years would not have.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Howard said the Jewish community had been badly let down, arguing its anger and frustration over the Bondi Beach massacre was inevitable.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Australian people are not stupid. They can work out a phoney. They can work out when they’re being treated to weasel words,\u201d Mr Howard said.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to malign his (Mr Albanese) character and everything on, but he\u2019s let the Jewish community down on this.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr Howard said the government\u2019s failure to respond to the recommendations of antisemitism special envoy, Jillian Segal, showed a lack of seriousness.<\/p>\n \u201cJillian Segal, the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, had a report, I believe, that was presented five months ago and it hasn’t been enacted yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it hasn\u2019t been enacted then the Prime Minister certainly must do something about it if he agrees with the recommendations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cIt sounds to be all of a piece with this ‘yes but\u00a0maybe’ approach that the Prime Minister has to this issue and that’s not good enough.”<\/p>\n
Labor neglects antisemitism envoy’s report
<\/p>\n Mr Albanese convened a National Cabinet meeting in the aftermath of the terror attack on Monday, but did not raise the antisemitism report published by Ms Segal.<\/p>\n The Australian<\/a> revealed that Mr Albanese had an “almost singular focus” on gun reform, neglecting the broader issue of antisemitism.<\/p>\n Sources have since told Sky News that Queensland Premier David Crisafulli and one other state premier raised concerns about the lack of focus to address antisemitism.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to a leaked document, only one paragraph of the National Cabinet’s draft outcomes focused on the issue of antisemitism.<\/p>\n That draft document had referenced an “evil terror attack” before a subsequent update was amended to say an “evil antisemitic terror attack”.<\/p>\n Asked specifically if he had raised Ms Segal’s plan to combat antisemitism, Mr Albanese claimed he had.<\/p>\n “We referenced the ongoing work including the national hate crime as an incident database,” he said.<\/p>\n “We have taken the report from the antisemitism envoy and what we are doing is busy implementing it. We talked about that yesterday.”<\/p>\n However, Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, Ms Segal told Sky News she was looking to the government to make a formal statement on its implementation of her plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Ms Segal published her “Plan to Combat Antisemitism<\/a>” in July 2025, but the government has not yet committed to all of its recommendations.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTo date, my view is that they’re not working well enough, and we need additional law reform,\u201d Ms Segal told Sky News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cI think now the community is sufficiently concerned and anxious about this, that there should be a formal statement about the implementations.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to rid our country of this scourge of this hatred, an ancient hatred that\u2019s been allowed to become normalised in parts of our society.\u201d<\/p>\n Albanese outlines gun law reform<\/p>\n Mr Albanese said that his National Cabinet had discussed efforts to \u201cstamp out\u201d antisemitism and to strengthen gun laws during their meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n He outlined considerations including limiting the number and type of guns that people can own and whether gun ownership should require Australian citizenship.<\/p>\n He did not mention any specific policy-based efforts to eliminate antisemitism but said he was \u201cabsolutely committed\u201d to working with Australian Jewish organisations.<\/p>\n The state and federal governments also agreed to accelerate work on establishing National Firearms Registers.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is an agreement that we reached through the National Cabinet at the end of 2023,\u201d Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe’ve provided over $160 million to do that, including in that over $100 million to states and territories.<\/p>\n \u201cFor some states and territories, they still have paper records. And that obviously makes it impossible to check across boundaries in a quick and efficient manner.<\/p>\n \u201cThe digitisation that is required, we’ve agreed to accelerate that. We will continue to engage.\u201d<\/p>\n Surviving gunman expected to be charged imminently<\/p>\n The father of the father-son terror attackers was killed at the scene of the mass murder on Sunday, while his son Naveed has been taken to hospital in a coma.<\/p>\n Naveed Akram will likely be charged by authorities if he survives his injuries but, as of Tuesday, police continue to treat him as a suspect.<\/p>\n Daily Telegraph crime editor Mark Morri told Sky News the police were “getting ready to potentially charge” the 24-year-old.<\/p>\n Authorities have begun examining whether the father and son’s actions were influenced by foreign actors, possibly linked to a hostile power like Iran or ISIS.<\/p>\n “This has obviously been something that maybe has been orchestrated by what they call foreign actors \u2013 Iran or other powers like that \u2013 that actually have an agenda against the Jewish people,” Mr Morri said.<\/p>\n![\"\u2018He](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/71d6398df3c1ba546b32251b16c6c91c.jpeg\")
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Segal says govt should make ‘formal statement’ on antisemitism report<\/p>\n
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Government announces gun law reform options in wake of massacre<\/p>\n