Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will not launch a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the senseless Bondi Beach terrorist attacks and will instead mount a more limited investigation.
Albanese will instead launch a less expansive review to determine whether Australian federal agencies are capable of keeping Australians safe, Sky News reported.
“Our security agencies must be in the best position to respond,” Albanese said in a statement Sunday.
The move comes in defiance of calls from the Jewish community and some Australian politicians to launch a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the attacks.
A Royal Commission of Inquiry is the highest level of independent investigation in the Australian political system.
It has the power to summon witnesses and can make recommendations to change policies and laws.
Albanese’s review will be held out of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and will not be independent. Its results are expected to be released in April 2026.
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Fifteen people were killed on Australia’s Bondi Beach on Dec. 14 when two crazed gunmen opened fire on a crowd of over 1,000 people who were celebrating the first night of Chanukah.
The terrorists, Sajid Akram 50 and Naveed , 24, allegedly stormed the family-friendly Chanukah-by-the-Sea event armed with a shotguns and a bolt-action rifle, killing 15 people and wounding 40.
Among those killed were a Holocaust survivor, rabbis and a ten-year-old girl.
The father was a member of a gun club and has had a recreational hunting license for over a decade, officials said. He was killed on the scene. Naveed was arrested and charged with 15 counts of murder.
Australia has incredibly stringent gun laws which were imposed following the 1996 Port Arthur mass shooting in Tasmania which killed 12 people.
Jewish groups and some lawmakers had called for an independent Royal Commission of Inquiry into the attacks.
“A Royal Commission is the only way we’re going to get the full picture of what happened on the weekend,” New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said.
The Australian state of New South Wales, where Bondi Beach is located, is planning to pass legislation that could ban the chant “globalize the intifada” at protests.
Albanese has been criticized for what some see as a lackluster response to antisemitism.
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