Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Australia holding a National Day of Mourning for Bondi victims

Over in Australia, today has been marked as a National Day of Mourning for the victims of December's Bondi terror attack.

The Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales are expected to illuminate national institutions on Thursday night as 'symbols of light' this evening.

Australians have also been asked to mark a minute's silence to honour those who were killed in the attack.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has urged Australians to support the nation's Jewish community. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with ends and Eye Insurance Peace of mind
for New Zealand business. Mury Olders from Australia.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Mary Good afternoon, Hello, buddy, good afternoon to you.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
So the coalition's just falling apart at the seams.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Disarray, absolute disarray. You heard the Nationals party leader there, listen,
a tiny little rural rump very much. The junior partner
and the coalition talk about tail wagging the dog. This
little proud, hopeless leader hopeless but you know, hated within
his own party. But if you look across the aisle
to the coalition part of the Liberals, I mean, all

(00:37):
you're going to do is change the badge because Susan
Lee is hated. Susan Lee is hated by many of
her own side. And you know the Nationals won't be
involved in any shadow ministry, shadow cabinet. Well, I mean, frankly,
big deal. Who gives a rats for Susan Lee. Her
time in the top job appears to be almost over.
What's the future. The Liberals themselves split between the Moderates

(01:01):
and the Conservatives. The Nationals for their part, the Country Party,
the rural rump absolutely petrified of Pauline Hanson and One
Nation with surging in the polls. As Australian voters say,
for God's sake, is there no one on the right
of politics we can vote for? They look at the
Liberals and they're absolutely shocked and horrified and disgusted with

(01:23):
the fact that most of them are in the middle,
because that's where you're go to form government in Australia.
The right wing isn't going to do it unless the
Nationals hop into bed with Pauline Hanson. In One Nation,
the modern Liberal Party is not conservative enough for the
hard right wingers. Voters are fleeing the Libs and the
Nats for One Nation. Look at the latest polls, Pauline
Hanson's party outrates the Liberals and Nationals combined. Now Labor

(01:48):
loving it chaos on the other side, helping bury memories
of what's been frankly a dreadful month for Anthony Albanezi
since the Bondai Beach massacre. He refused the Royal Commission,
refused to recall Parliament. He did both and the coalitions
fall into pieces. Plus he's got through parliament legislation on
hate speech and gun reform. All in all, a pretty
good result. For labor, dreadful for those who want to

(02:10):
vote to the right in Australia.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah, and it was meant to be bad for him,
wasn't it.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Then? All of this stuff absolutely.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Now the National day of rememberance speaking of Bondi for
Bondai happening today.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
That's right, happening today, with flags across the country at
half mass. There's to be a minute's silence this evening
at one minute past seven. We're being encouraged as a
nation to go out and do mitzvah's. A mitzvah in
Yiddish is an active, an active generosity or kindness. You might,
I don't know, help someone across the street, an older

(02:42):
person you know, carry their groceries of the car. It
could be anything, basically to think of someone else other
than yourself. The Sydney Opera House to be the center
point of all of this with a major memorial service tonight.
Anthony Ibneasy there today he's called on all of us,
all Australians, to basically wrap our arms around our Jewish
community and obviously condemning that dreadful, active evil. Still shake

(03:06):
my head, I can't get my head around it. But
at the same time these halfwits, as an organization called
Mars for Australia is planning a new round of national
demonstrations on Australia Day, which is January the twenty six.
Some of these people involved in this March for Australia,
we're told, were previously involved in Neo Nazi White Australia Party. Well,

(03:28):
they've had to switch allegiances because Neo Nazi's beneficially banned. Well, whoops,
where are we going to do our dumb stuff? Now,
let's go and do it with this outfit called March
for Australia white supremacists who don't want immigration. Well, good
luck with that sport.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, and good luck. And now finally the stained sadly
with Tiarra tech. Someone's been charged with planning one in Queensland.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, this is a twenty four year old student accused
of planning to throw Molotov cocktails that a crowd on
the Gold Coast which would be there gathered to my
Australia Day. Now. He apparently he was planning the attack
using artificial intelligence, although he did apparently go to Bunnings

(04:11):
and buy some of the goods you need to make
molotov cocktails. I'm not sure what he's studying, this fella.
I don't think it would involve IQ's either about seventeen.
But anyway, he applied for Bayo. Yeah, good luck with
that too. Sorry, he says the magistrate. You're a half
whip supplying you hate around the country via the internet.

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He bought bottles of alcohol, wrapping paper blankets, and he
urged people in Melbourne let them know they can start
buying vodka bottles early and stop piling batches. And this
fellow also told the court he expected to die during
his attack on the Gold Coast unless he was killed
all the bottomized first by Australia's domestic spy agency ASIO.

(04:52):
I think for his own safety. This guy's been remanded
and custody. You wouldn't send the guy to the shop
for milk. It'd probably come back with a loaf of bread.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Do you know what his cause was?

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Oh, just pissed off with something.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
No, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I mean, that's nothing that will emerge. That will emerge.
But today the magistrate said, are you kidding?

Speaker 1 (05:13):
As he said him downstairs, appreciate it, Mary, Mary, thank you,
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