It’s hard to believe that neither the Victorian Police, nor ASIO, nor the Australian Federal Police have come up with nothing on the synagogue attack after a month.

In the first week of the terrorist attack we were told police were hunting three suspects and had made what they called “significant progress”. Since then? Nothing. Waiting for people to forget about it, perhaps. Anything is possible in anti-Semitic Australia.

In the meantime, Julian Hill, Labor backbencher, has been appointed to liaise with synagogue leaders on funding to repair the damage.

The same Jillian Hill who said that the October 7 atrocity had to be contextualised: jabbering about “complexity” and “history”, and this is a “75 year conflict”.

Hill also said that Israel was “hell bent on imposing an apartheid state” on the Middle East.

The Jews should feel oh so comfortable with Mr. Hill. They might ask why he has called for a Palestinian state while Hamas is still holding Jewish hostages.

Just a thought ...

We have too many politicians ...

When they need advice they go to the experts which costs the taxpayer a fortune.

Instead why don't we have a meritocracy and employ the experts themselves ... the most experienced in Housing, Health, Education etc.

When Albo got in I was delighted ... however, increasingly dismayed.

As for Wong!

Hi WhiteMouse,

But look at the alternative?

We can see an increase in verbal abuse online.
With a new year approaching we need to take a
closer look around us. We need a new narrative,
especially regarding the conflict in the Middle
East.

A new narrative is needed one which seeks dialogue
and compromise between the two sides.

Hi Foxy,

"We need a new narrative,
especially regarding the conflict in the Middle
East."

Do you mean like Assad killing half a million of his citizens, then being welcomed back into the fold of Arab nations? At least he returned the French gong, but I don't remember people protesting here about it, screaming hatred, burning down synagogues and such like.

The problem is hatred Foxy, and identity politics doesn't help. I think we need to accept that people have a wide range of views and recognise that "misinformation and disinformation" is a concept developed by authoritarian regimes to quell dissent. Painting people as being good or bad for the sake of having an opinion about one thing or another seems a bit tribal.

welcomed back into the fold of Arab nations?
Fester,
Notice how they don't do that with the Gaza mob ?

Fester, I can appreciate the wide range views you mentioned however, I can not get myself ignore the moral & competence decline since Albanese's Labor took the reigns !
Of course those with cushy responsibility-free bureaucrat positions & salaries can't see that but the working class does & feels it ! Being outnumbered by the former makes it worse !