ASIO warning before Bondi attack did not single out elevated Hanukkah risk
By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Australia's intelligence agency, ASIO, issued its annual holiday threat assessment less than two weeks before the Hanukkah terrorist attack at Bondi Beach but did not identify heightened risks to the Jewish festival, despite earlier declaring antisemitism as its top priority in terms of threat to life.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/asio-advice-hanukkah-risks-bondi-attack/106711012

#SecurityIntelligence #Terrorism #RoyalCommissions #SeanRubinszteinDunlop

ASIO cut counterterrorism funding share to post-9/11 low before Bondi
By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop

Australia's intelligence agencies had cut counterterrorism funding to its lowest share this century before the Bondi massacre, despite warnings that a terrorist attack was probable and that antisemitic violence posed an escalating threat to life.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-22/asio-counterterrorism-funding-share-shrunk-before-bondi-attack/106706676

#SecurityIntelligence #RoyalCommissions #Terrorism #SeanRubinszteinDunlop

Good gracious, #AmyRemiekis really knows our #AlboPM. In this article she presents her assessement of the #Labor leader and for my money, I think she nailed it:

“Albanese’s stumbles – from calling Grace Tame difficult and David Pocock a populist, to pushing back against a royal commission following Bondi (for much the same reasons as here), to dragging his feet on gambling reform and doing only the bare minimum when absolutely pushed, to feeling miffed securing fuel supplies and announcing a domestic gas reservation haven’t quelled demands for a gas export tax, to not pushing back hard enough against the misinformation and disinformation surrounding the Indigenous Voice – all of it comes back to the root cause that he gets uncomfortable, and defensive, when he’s asked for a bigger, and braver agenda.”

Read Amy’s piece here:
https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/260521-pms-softly-softly-just-wont-cut-it-any-more-this-latest-slip-is-proof-of-that

“There is a running theme among Anthony Albanese’s missteps. His latest […] to dismiss calls for a royal commission into femicide and violence against women follows the pattern – the Prime Minister gets frustrated when the public’s agenda is broader than his own.”

#AusPol #TaxReform #FossilFuel #GasExportTax #Femicide #RoyalCommissions #TimidAnthony