As I stood in my kitchen watching the massacre at Bondi, I suspect, like many of you too, I ran the gauntlet of emotions, from horror, sadness anger, but not disbelief, not shock, because what happened yesterday was utterly foreseeable, and it's been foreseeable ever since terrorists crossed the border from Gaza into Israel, slaughtered men, women, children, babies with that depravity then celebrated on streets in this country, within hours.

Local Australian Imams declared: “I'm smiling and I'm happy. It's a day of courage!” ?.

Today in Bondi is the enormity of the reality of what happened yesterday. 

It hit home, like shells, shocking locals, who stood by the beach in disbelief, huddled together, unable, perhaps unwilling, to comprehend the tragedy that had taken place in such an iconic setting, an image of Australia, our brand, going the world over. 

And as they stood together, asking “Why?” 

“How did we get here?”

 The Prime Minister walked to a spot on the famous Bondi Pavilion to lay flowers in tribute to the dead, an image now synonymous with how the public reacts to what they can't understand what they don't want to understand. But it's not enough to mourn and grieve. Important though that is. It is certainly not what we want or need from our political leaders. 

Frankly, I am sick of politicians and their plastic wrapped flowers responding to crises, when it's their job, as our leaders, to do you so much more than just be mourners in chief? 

So much more than just disaster tourists with the whole apparatus of government in their hands, the police, the security agencies, even the military, if needed, they have what it takes to keep us safe, and that is their first and most important job, the hand wringing in the flowers. 

Honestly, it's hardly better than an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff. 

It's our leaders, and only our leaders, who can harness the laws and the people to act, and where they do not, where they have been slow to act or not acted at all, then they must share responsibility for the dead. 

As a nation, we got our wake up call on this hatred over two years ago, and because this hatred was allowed to go all but unchecked, it's metastasized into the evil we saw yesterday on the beach at Bondi.

A father and son team who treated a Jewish religious celebration as a shooting gallery, yet another Australian landmark, chosen very deliberately so that the image would go around the world, now associated with savage Jew hatred.

Just like the Opera House more than two years ago disfigured the Opera House. 

That angry mob, just two days after October 7, before Israel had even launched any retaliatory response against the Gaza terror state. Then the Harbor Bridge. It's was on the Sydney Harbor Bridge that 100,000 people marched against Israel, against Jews, with crowds baying for blood. And now at Bondi Beach 15 are killed because they were celebrating Hanukkah and over 40 wounded and hospitalized.

At every level Governments in Australia have been guilty of hand wringing, impotence in the face of mounting Jew hatred.

Hate preachers that haven't been shut down, they haven't been jailed, nor have they been deported. 

Here are examples of their ‘hate speech’: “The trees will speak. The stones will speak, and they will say, Oh, I must speak, and they will say, Oh Muslim, oh believer, there is a Yahudi behind me. Come and kill him. Jihad is part of our deen, (way if life) and one of the highest winners of our deen. Hamas is Mujahideen and freedom fighters are warriors.”

This isthe modern face of Australia: hate marches that haven't been stopped. Flags of terror groups, Hamas and Hezbollah proudly on display. Something that the former treasurer, Josh Freidenburg, talking to my colleague, Karen Gilbert, referred to today, ‘people are waving Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS flags, and where is the sanction, or saying death to the IDF, and then when nurses in Australia talk about death to Israelis, we're supposed to be told that this is simply a joke.’ 

Throughout this sorry two years of inaction, the worst culprit has been our prime minister. The greatest derogation of Duty has been his, the man who is still at heart, the hard left activist of his youth, who has failed to lift to the standard we expect of our national leader. 

Josh Frydenburg states: “It starts with our prime minister, and it goes down through his ministers and everybody who is in a position of responsibility, who has failed in their public duty to protect our citizens. I sat in the audience in November 2023 at the Holocaust Museum, in the aftermath of October the seventh, and heard from our prime minister say in his own words that he would not allow anti semitism to get a foothold in Australia. What a failure that has been.”

PETA CREDLIN continues: Until last night. This was a prime minister who has often seemed more concerned to criticize Israel than crack down and out of control Jew hatred here in Australia, a Prime Minister who positively gloated on the world stage about recognizing Palestine or failing to recognize that in doing so, he left Australian Jews feeling vulnerable and abandoned PM “right now, Gaza is in the grip of a humanitarian catastrophe, and the Israeli government must accept its share of responsibility.” 

For two years, this prime minister and his ministers have found it almost impossible to mention anti semitism without coupling rampant anti semitism with an almost non existent Islamophobia. It couldn't appoint an envoy into anti semitism without also appointing one into Islamophobia. And five months on, there's been no adequate response from the government to Jillian Segal's report. There's been no crackdown on the universities that tolerated anti semitic encampments. There's been no stronger laws through the parliament to address anti Jewish hate speech. The number one job, as I said, of any prime minister, is to do whatever is needed to keep citizens safe. John Howard knew that when he stood before the mob following Port Arthur, when he took on many of his own supporters, but that's what leadership is about. The prime minister, by contrast, this Prime Minister wouldn't know what leadership is. He's got no trouble going to sporting events and concerts, the footy finals and all those overseas trips. He had a week's break off after those UN meetings. He's even had time to get married, but he can't find the time to respond to his anti semitism report. It is appalling, whatever you want to call it. It is not leadership on national security. Anthony Albanese is wanting, before he was elected the PM, indeed, he had never touched any defense or security portfolio in his 25 years plus in the federal parliament. And it shows! 

Who can forget that one of his first acts in the job was to throw the federal police chief and the ASIO boss out of the national security cabinet room, and doesn't that just say everything about his priorities. Now Albanese dares to say : “And the Jewish community are hurting today. Today, all Australians wrap our arms around them.!”Look, it's fine, and it's good to say, let's wrap our arms around our Jewish Australians. But what about just protecting them better? What about doing more to uphold Australian values with which the recent outpourings of anti Jewish hate are so at odds? What about standing up for our Anglo Celtic core culture that's always made Jewish people feel welcome in this country and made them, made them the commander of our armed forces in John Monash, a chief justice of Australia in Isaac Isaacs and a Governor General, in Sir Zelman Cowen. 

This was once a country where we celebrated Jewish Australians, and now it's a place for not only to don't they feel safe, but they are also, in fact, not safe. They are not safe. Where on our streets their lives are at risk. 

Alex  Ryvchin, the CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry being interviewed by a Sky News reporter was asked yesterday: “How do you explain this (massacre)  to your daughters?” He replied “This time, I couldn't really explain it, you know, she said to me, I'm scared. And previously, after the attack on our former home and things like that, I could tell her, it's okay. We're safe. I can't say that anymore. We're not safe. If Jews get slaughtered on Bondi Beach and body bags are piled up at this place, we're not safe.”And as we know, if you know your history, if Jews are not safe in your nation, no one is safe. This is where we are tonight in Australia, after we mourn the dead, let us all use our grief and our justifiable anger and rage to force change, not just with this Prime Minister, but the others that come after him and our governments of the future. Because to turn around this hatred, it will be a fight for more than just one term of Parliament, we must overturn some three or so decades of immigration policy we have brought into this country hatreds that have no place in Australia. What about upholding and celebrating our Judeo Christian ethos, which holds that all men and women are equal in the sight of God, December 14, 2025, will be marked by history as one of our very worst days. It is what comes now that really matters, and that is how we, all of us, will be judged in the future. You future.

Administrators note:

Remember God’s word to Father Abraham the founder of Israel in Genesis chapter 12 verse 3: “Whoever blesses you I will bless, and whoever cursed you I will curse!” And that blessing or cursing belongs to both individuals and NATIONS! So let us bless - and not curse Israel!