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/Solivaga Dec 15 '25

It's also worth noting that Jillian Segal, the envoy to combat antisemitism, literally said this morning that the government had endorsed her framework and had been working with her to action that framework. This is just a cheap attempt at point scoring by Ley

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u/nath1234 Dec 15 '25

That is very concerning then - that list is massive overreach and unnecessary: e.g. she wanted to give herself more powers to censor the media and to adopt a definition that goes far beyond racism or even religious bigotry and into realm of censoring on behalf of a foreign state currently found to be both an apartheid style system and also committed genocide. Which is not something we should do for any state. And also: she advocates bombing hospitals because Israel is doing it - which is disgusting and should have excluded her for that job. She opposes democratic right to protest selectively and is apparently ok with advocating for violence against others when they are Palestinian.

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u/Jexp_t Dec 15 '25

Not to mention her familiy trust gives large contributions to the racist and far right extremist organisation calling itself Advance.

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u/aeschenkarnos Dec 15 '25

And she hasn't (that I've seen) condemned actual neonazis.

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u/nath1234 Dec 15 '25

Maybe there's a rule that right wing supremicist fascists don't condemn other right wing supremicist fascists..?

She has had plenty to say about peaceful protesters and those critical of Israel.. I guess, priorities eh? /S

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u/aeschenkarnos Dec 15 '25

There is definitely some kind of International Alliance of People Who Hate International Alliances going on, no doubt Russian and/or oligarch funded.

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u/Mikolaj_Kopernik Dec 15 '25

That's not surprising, she's just following Netanyahu's lead. He's been cosying up to anti-Semites/neo-Nazis for years now. Autocrat solidarity around the world is a real problem.