Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke insists the government is taking steps to combat antisemitism in Australia.
After the horrific Bondi Beach shooting, where a Hanukkah celebration was targeted, the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal claimed the government must take stronger action.
"We have not come out strongly enough against [antisemitism]. The messaging has not been sufficient, and the education has not been sufficient for people to understand what antisemitism is and how it destroys the community," she told ABC Radio National yesterday.
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However, Burke rejected claims the government has been slow to act on the warnings of antisemitism within Australia, or that they have not acted on recommendations made by Segal in July.
"We've been implementing a whole series of them," Burke said on Today, "and haven't delayed in any way."
"The calls for things like doxxing to be made illegal, which we've done… wanting to strengthen the laws on hate crimes. We've now got the toughest laws against hate crimes on a federal level than we ever have.
"You'll see the recommendations about the disgust at the willingness of people to perform a nazi salute or to use hate symbols. Those symbols, these gestures are now illegal at a federal level."
He referenced the deportation of a South African man who performed a nazi salute at a rally outside of New South Wales' Parliament House last month.
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Burke also denied claims he or the government had not been in contact with Segal regarding her recommendations.
The Home Affairs Minister was heckled by some bystanders last night as he laid a wreath at Bondi Beach.
He conceded emotions are still "raw", but stood by his decision to go to Bondi.
"It was still important that I went there, that I go to the scene and that with the police commissioner, we both lay that wreath," he said.
Burke and other members of the Albanese government were also slammed by Victoria Teplitsky, the daughter of one of the victims.
"Tony Burke, as far as I'm concerned, and [Penny] Wong and [Anthony] Albanese, they're committing treason [to] Australia," she claimed.
"They're betraying Australia with the way that they've handled everything. I don't believe anything that he says, I don't think anyone does."
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