Labor defends plan for faster, narrower review despite Jewish leaders and families of 11 victims demanding full national royal commission

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The Albanese government has rejected calls by families of Bondi beach terror attack victims for a federal royal commission, claiming it would “provide a platform for the worst voices” of antisemitism.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said a royal commission would be too slow and was not the right vehicle to investigate the attack on a Hanukah festival that killed 15, standing by his preference for a shorter review of intelligence and law enforcement agencies - a move scorned as inadequate by leaders of the Jewish community and many federal MPs.

Source: Guardian - World News