Read the full interim report here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nMr Albanese has confirmed that his National Security Committee has accepted all the recommendations and will work to adopt a national approach with the states.<\/p>\n
“The Interim Report contains a small number of classified recommendations which cannot be publicly released because they could compromise sensitive national security information,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The government will respond swiftly to these recommendations and Australians will see practical outcomes through a range of policy, program and funding measures.”<\/p>\n
Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek told Sky News earlier on Thursday the report would be “absolutely critical” for the government.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Australians are still grieving the event and still searching for answers. I know Virginia Bell will have done a very thorough job,” she said on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It will be a conversation in the Australian public, no doubt. And people will see the interim report later today. They’ll have the opportunity to read it for themselves.”<\/p>\n
The report is expected to raise sweeping concerns about the nation\u2019s counter-terrorism preparedness and coordination.<\/p>\n
The recommendations are expected to focus on systemic weaknesses in counter-terrorism machinery, particularly intelligence sharing, and government preparedness.<\/p>\n
The intelligence sharing concerns relate to the overseas travel by the alleged terrorists, who visited the southern Philippines, a known terrorist hotspot.<\/p>\n
Sky News understands the trip taken by the Akrams to the southern Philippines was not for military training but to seek a spiritual blessing for the Bondi attack.<\/p>\n
Despite Border Force and the AFP being alerted to the trip, it is not clear that this intelligence was passed on to ASIO or NSW Police.<\/p>\n
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The first block of public hearings in the Royal Commission will be held from next Monday, May 4.<\/p>\n
The hearings, which will run until May 15, will focus on defining and exploring the nature of antisemitism in its historical and contemporary manifestations.<\/p>\n
The Royal Commission is expected to hear from witnesses sharing their lived experiences of antisemitism and its impacts on Jewish Australians.<\/p>\n
Ms Bell will also probe the metrics for assessing the prevalence of antisemitism in institutions and society, including through incident reporting and survey data.<\/p>\n
The final report will be delivered by the one-year anniversary of the attack on December 14, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shadow education minister Julian Leeser said the report is expected to scrutinise Australia’s intelligence and security agencies’ knowledge of the attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This part of the report is going to look at what our intelligence and security agencies knew and what level of cooperation there was across the different policing forces, both federal and state,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And will hopefully make some recommendations along those lines to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”<\/p>\n
Mr Leeser encouraged all Australians to make a submission to the commission.<\/p>\n
“My plea to Australians this morning, whether they are Jewish or not, is please make a submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism – you don’t have to be Jewish to do it,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But if you don’t like the way our country has changed and the way our country has failed to deal with the growth of antisemitism… it’s really important that the Royal Commission hears from you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Commission into Antisemitism has handed down its interim report into the Bondi Beach terror attack. Tune…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29623,16169,31945,64,63,89155,213035,24346,46784,1788,44,15397,145481,120749,15387],"class_list":["post-639516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-afp","tag-albanese-government","tag-asio","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bondi-beach","tag-bondi-royal-commission","tag-governor-general","tag-home-affairs","tag-labor","tag-news","tag-sam-mostyn","tag-social-cohesion","tag-terror-attack","tag-tony-burke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}