In the days after the Bondi massacre, this masthead took the editorial decision to lead calls for a royal commission into this murderous attack on the Jewish community. As the nation continued to mourn, we began 2026 with an editorial calling on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “to announce a Commonwealth royal commission that investigates every aspect of the events leading up to Bondi, with the scourge of antisemitism front and centre”.

Our reasoning was that this is the only form of inquiry with the scope to root out the rise of antisemitism in this country, which has only accelerated since the appalling Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023, and throughout Israel’s subsequent bombardment of Gaza.

In recent weeks, this masthead published thousands of names of Australians calling........

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