Royal Commissions

NSW Police Deputy Commissioner David Hudson has given evidence at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

Naveed Akram and his father travelled to Uzbekistan around 2022 and a former terror hotspot in the Philippines shortly before committing the Bondi massacre. 

Four officers were present at the event when the shooting started, with Jewish security organisation Community Security Group NSW denied its request to have police on patrol for the entirety of the event.

The head of Australia's domestic intelligence agency reveals it reviewed past terrorism investigations in 2024 which did not extend to a re-examination of the soon to be Bondi gunmen because of a resourcing decision.

The Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion has entered a critical phase, assessing the circumstances surrounding the Bondi terror attack with ASIO director-general Mike Burgess defending counter-terrorism resourcing.

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess defends the organisation's change in priorities prior to the Bondi attack while speaking at today's Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

The head of Australia's spy agency will be the first witness when the royal commission on antisemitism resumes this week. 

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.

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.

Jewish Australians told the royal commission that antisemitism has spread into everyday life. But whether the inquiry can handle what it has promised to confront remains to be seen.

A Jewish security agency raised concerns about Bondi Beach gunman Naveed Akram years before the terror attack that left 15 people dead, a document shows.

About 80 per cent of Jewish women in Australia have experienced antisemitism personally or against an immediate family member in the past two years, the royal commission has heard.

The Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion hears a 15-year-old was subjected to antisemitic slurs while playing the popular video game with students from a Perth school. 

A royal commission sparked by the Bondi terror attack is this week expected to hear from groups who challenge the commission's accepted definition of antisemitism, as well as expert witnesses from the United Kingdom.

Fear, concerns for safety and the impact on children dominated the first week of hearings of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion.

The man told the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion he was embraced by the LGBTQIA+ community when he came out as gay as a teenager, but the experience was markedly different when he told loved ones of his religious conversion.

A high-profile witness tells a royal commission that antisemitism is a "virus" which has evolved over time, with aggressors on the far right and far left side of politics.

A man wearing a T-shirt with a swastika was initially moved on by police outside the royal commission into antisemitism in Sydney, before later being arrested and charged.

Paramedic Joshua Gomperts tells the royal commission into antisemitism how a firefighter pulled a hunting knife on him during a music festival in regional Victoria.

Natalie Levy had an idyllic childhood growing up singing songs on Bondi Beach, but her children now attend school surrounded by heavy security and swastikas graffitied on buildings.