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Published: 17 December 2025

Last updated: 17 December 2025

SimonKrite

Victoria

I won’t pretend to be calm about this. I’m angry, so fucking angry at the failure of leadership we are witnessing. From the Prime Minister down, our government has been weak where it should have been firm, silent where it should have spoken, and morally confused at a moment that demanded clarity.
That failure has consequences and we have just witnessed them.

Albanese, Wong, Bourke and the Greens, the socialist scum and the Palestinian street army, including the bogus “Jewish Council” ALL HAVE BLOOD on their hands today.

This Albanese, Labor government have created space for organisations and movements that traffic in grievance, intimidation and ideological hatred to feel emboldened. Groups that masquerade as “activists” while normalising extremism, and crowds that march week after week to build division. Bondi, was enabled by these cowards.

BUT THIS IS WHAT MATTERS MOST
This is not a Jewish problem.
It is an Australian problem.

When hatred is tolerated in the streets, when intimidation becomes normalised, when the state hesitates to defend social cohesion, the damage doesn’t stop with one community. It spreads. It corrodes trust. It darkens the country we are handing to our children.

So yes, we grieve.
Yes, we are angry.

But this is also a moment to stand together and taller, stronger and not to shrink back.
Now is the time to unite as Australians. To be unafraid. To insist on decency, law, and moral courage. To push back relentlessly against ideologies that thrive on fear and fracture. And to empower our Police to act accordingly.

We don’t answer darkness with darkness. (although it’s tempting)
We answer it with resolve, clarity, and light.

For our children.
For our families.
For our communities.
For our country.

I’m not giving up on Australia and I know many of you aren’t either.
Now is time to call out these evil organisations and the people that enable them. These are the people responsible for creating space for last night tragedy at Bondi.

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