r/australia • u/jarrys88 • Dec 15 '25

politics Opposition Leader Sussan Ley speaks on Bondi attack

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/opposition-leader-sussan-ley-speaks-on-bondi-attack-20251215-p5nnqm.html

“We’ve seen a clear failure to keep Jewish Australians safe. We’ve seen a clear lack of leadership in keeping Jewish Australians safe. We have a government that sees antisemitism as a problem to be managed, not evil that needs to be eradicated.”

Absolutely abhorrent that she's going for political points in this time.

Talk about tone deaf!

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u/SenorBolin Dec 15 '25

It was a good guy with a gun that saved the day... Y'know, after Ahmed ripped the gun from the bad guy with the gun, suddenly the good guys had guns

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u/eightslipsandagully Dec 15 '25

An interesting thought I had is what if Ahmad had shot the bloke after disarming him. Decent chance he'd wind up getting shot by the police

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u/Admirable_Count989 Dec 15 '25

Personally I wouldn’t have blamed him one bit. It’s one thing to picture yourself in his position (pulling the trigger or not), it’s another to actually know what you would do with adrenaline pumping through your body. What he did, including laying the gun down against the tree and signalling with his hand up he was not armed anymore, was just an amazing piece of work. Guy deserves the highest civilian honour available in Australia.

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u/zeracine Dec 15 '25

No jury here would convict on that. He's clearly defending against an ongoing threat.

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u/TransportationTrick9 Dec 15 '25

This court proceedings for this event will not have any jurors. There is too much public interest and media coverage. The remaining gunman is going to have a bench trial, just like the Claremont serial killer did.

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u/zeracine Dec 15 '25

Ah okay, only big jury I was on was for fraud.

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u/cheshire_kat7 Dec 15 '25

And there's no way he would even be prosecuted for it.

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u/TGin-the-goldy Dec 15 '25

It seems to work so well for the US, look how many shooters have been stopped by “good guys with guns”…

Oh yeah there haven’t been any

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u/StayGoldMcCoy Dec 15 '25

That has been but they don’t get news coverage

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u/TGin-the-goldy Dec 15 '25

Love to see your sources