Albo opposed the RC because there are things to hide and there is a demographic that is vital to ALP's prospects (ie Muslims and anti-semites) who he doesn't want to upset.

Now that he and his flying-monkeys have been forced, kicking and screaming, to accede to an RC, he's done the next best thing from his point of view - appointed a commissioner who can be relied on to not look too closely at the things he'd prefer to keep under wraps and not upset his vital constituency.

No other outcome was ever going to be permitted.

Geez you talk some rubbish mhaze.
Albo signaled an intention to recognise the IHRA working definition of anti-Semitism. That makes him arguably both more supportive of Israel and more authoritarian towards his own citizens rights to speak their mind than Donald Trump.

The criticism towards Virginian Bell shows again that when Israel is involved, the rules bend, and the outcome tends to end up being quietly predecided.

If I'm a Jew, I'm asking if Virginian Bell is supportive of Israel or the Palestinians, and if the answer is not Israel, then I'd oppose her appointment, simple.

You cant have an RC on Bondi without seeking the perpetrators motive,
and you can't have an RC into anti-Semitism without looking at whether peoples dislike, resentment, anger, frustration, criticism or even animosity towards Jews and Israel are reasonable on a basis of their own merits.

- This is the truth, regardless of whether or not these inconvenient and uncomfortable truths are offensive to Jews and Israel and increase their fear of non-Jews.

What's the bet we go through this entire three ringed circus for a year, and still there will be no answer as to the perpetrators motive.

If that happens, then this was a witchhunt, not a search for truth and answers.

MOTIVE! OR STOP WASTING EVERYBODY'S TIME

John, I agree that senior and experienced lawyers called to lead a Royal Commission will often have heard some cases relevant to the Commission’s subject. But how “adjacent” the question is, matters. It would raise eyebrows if, for example, a judge who had been part of the high court ruling that the Catholic Church is not vicariously liable for child sex abuse by its clergy was subsequently appointed a royal commissioner examining institutional sex abuse.

And the lack of confidence by parts of the Jewish community is not only related to the possible conflict of interest. Bell is perceived to be a left-wing activist whose senior appointments were all made by Labor governments, including heading the inquiry into Scott Morrison’s multiple ministries. There’s nothing wrong with any of that – I think it’s good to have a diversity of views in the judiciary, and Morrison deserved to be excoriated for his conduct. But it means she may not be the best person to lead this Royal Commission. She will not be the unifying figure we need at the moment, and will be susceptible to allegations of downplaying the government’s possible negligence in the lead-up to Bondi and the left’s role in rising antisemitism.

It’s a bit like Tony Abbott’s appointment of Dyson Heydon to head the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption in 2014. Heydon’s legal credentials were impeccable, but he was the wrong choice.

Rhian,
A conflict of interest for a judge who had been part of the high court ruling that the Catholic Church is not vicariously liable for child sex abuse by its clergy would be if that judge WAS a Catholic.

There is no conflict of interest here, seems to me that's what the Jewish groups problem is, a lack of one.

Jewish groups WANT a conflict of interest.
They want someone already known to support Israel.
They are trying to put the fix in ahead of time.

All of this 'Zionist interference' has gone too far in my opinion.

Take the Adelaide Writers Festival which is now discontinued due to incessant Jewish control freaks endless whining...

Festival chair, board members quit after author's cancellation from Writers' Week
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-11/fallout-amid-writers-week-cancellation-of-randa-abdel-fattah/106217646

>>On Friday, Jewish Community Council of South Australia public and government liaison Norman Schueler said the council had sent a letter to the board requesting the removal of Abdel-Fattah from the Writers' Week program.

"The board [has] completely, appropriately dis-invited her," Mr Schueler said.

"Personally, I'm very, very surprised it appears a large cohort of people have decided to support her."

Ex-Adelaide Writers' Week director Jo Dyer is among 11 former Adelaide Festival leaders who have urged her reinstatement, and said the resignations of three of its members left the board's current position in limbo.

Ms Dyer earlier said literary festivals were designed "to allow civilised debate to take place on a range of different issues".<<

Israel, don't want an open debate, they don't want to face criticism, they want to blame others and want to cancel any discussion at all whilst screaming Anti-Semitic.

What the hell are they frightened of, that someone might actually agree with her?

'the left’s role in rising antisemitism'.

The left aren't really guilty of rising anti-Semitism.
More to the point, the right are indirectly complicit in Israel's genocide, with silence so deafening you can hear a pin drop.

The left, by voicing their disdain and objections to Israels actions are doing what civilised human beings are supposed to do, defend the life and dignity of other human beings.

It's human nature to oppose harm done to other human beings,
- Especially kids and even more so when it's deliberate..
The soulless whining Jewish groups can't seem to comprehend this from their own hate filled cancel-cultured echo chambers.

You can be anti-Chinese, anti-Russian, anti-Venezuelan, anti-Iranian, anti-Muslim, no problem, but heaven help you if you dare to criticise a disgusting child murdering nation that holds pro-rape protests, as they will label you anti-semitic.

Anti-Semitic means 'You're not allowed to criticise the baby killers'

Individual

And from a Jewish voice commenting on the situation in Australia, and its implications with the Bondi massacre, the following shock horror.

http://fb.watch/EAyBNv_zll/?fs=e

And this is exactly what Albanese is running from; his lifelong love affair with radical causes has caught up with him!