In The Spectator, Terry Barnes criticizes the response of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to the recent antisemitic attack on tourists at Bondi Beach. Barnes concludes:

But a truly blistering indictment of Australia’s government was delivered today, at the massacre site, by former Liberal party deputy leader and leading Jewish Australian, Josh Frydenberg.

‘We as a Jewish community have been abandoned and left alone by our governments’, Frydenberg declared angrily.

‘Our governments have failed every Australian when it comes to fighting hate and anti-Semitism. Our Prime Minister, our government, [have] allowed Australia to be radicalised on his watch. It’s time for him to accept personal responsibility for the death of 15 innocent people, including a ten-year-old child’.

The last point overreached in the heat of the moment, but Frydenberg didn’t just deliver a fiery Philippic. He set out a seven-point manifesto to eradicate anti-Semitism. He especially insisted that the comprehensive anti-Semitism action plan recommended by Albanese’s personal envoy, Jillian Segal, stop gathering dust and be implemented immediately. He proposed direct action when the government of the day as yet hasn’t.

Since Sunday, Albanese has failed to act like a statesman for the good of all. He is losing control of events. There is no sign that Albanese will, like Howard did with sweeping gun law reform in 1996, take on his own pro-Palestine and anti-Israel progressive support base, in order to assure Australian Jews they are safe, and wanted, in their own country.

Guns did the killing on Sunday evening but, as Frydenberg said today, Islamist ideology pulled the trigger. Anthony Albanese should reflect on this part of Frydenberg’s fiery speech:

‘Prime Minister, you have failed us. Your government has failed us. You sit in a chair. It’s time you earned that title. If you don’t want to do the job, give it to somebody who will’.

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