Coalition demands intelligence on foreign support for anti-Semitic crimes
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should be more forthright about intelligence that foreign actors may have been behind some of the anti-Semitic crimes committed over the summer.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should be more forthright about intelligence that foreign actors may have been behind some of the anti-Semitic crimes committed over the summer.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) revealed on Tuesday night the agency was investigating whether foreign actors had paid local criminals to carry out the attacks on Australian soil.
AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw said police were still "building evidence", and the prime minister on Wednesday morning avoided detailing those investigations, saying he did not want to jeopardise them.
Mr Dutton questioned why the prime minister had not mentioned this before.
"The prime minister needs to be honest here ⌠are these state actors, are they organised crime groups, or are they anti-Semitic groups?" he asked.
"Frankly it shines a spotlight on the fact the Commonwealth government should have deployed resources much earlier."
Earlier on Wednesday morning Mr Albanese criticised Mr Dutton for pressuring Australia's intelligence agencies to release more information.
"Peter Dutton, as someone who was responsible for some national security issues as minister for home affairs should know better," he said.
Also on Wednesday morning, Shadow Home Affairs Minister James Paterson said the allegation was so significant that the government must provide more information than it has.
"If it is true, it is a gravely serious issue. It will be one of the most serious security crises that Australia has faced in peacetime," Senator Paterson said.
"It either means that a transnational terrorist organisation is sponsoring attacks in Australia, or that a foreign government is engaged in state sponsored terror, targeting the Jewish community in Australia.
"And this claim will strike terrible fear in the heart of the Jewish community and other Australians who feel like they're on the receiving end of this."
He said it was incumbent on the government to say what it knows, when ministers were briefed, whether the cabinet's national security subcommittee had met, and whether the Five Eyes intelligence network was "engaged" in the matter.
Mr Albanese confirmed on Wednesday morning that the Five Eyes network was playing a role, adding that these investigations weren't "something that began yesterday".
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said it was unhelpful for Senator Paterson to make demands of the AFP to reveal more information.
"The Australian Federal Police will have very deliberate reasons for what they put out in the public and when they do it, and they operate independently, as they should," Mr Burke said.
"I certainly would not join in what I thought was a surprising and potentially naive call from [Senator] Paterson when you are just randomly saying, 'Oh, we need more information on this.' They should put out the information that they think helps with the investigation."
Tony Burke said it was naive to pressure intelligence agencies to release more details.(AAP: Mick Tsikas)
After Mr Albanese convened a snap meeting of national cabinet on Tuesday, Mr Dutton also expressed his disappointment firmer commitments were not made as a consequence.
"There was nothing substantive that was delivered out of that national cabinet meeting," Mr Dutton said.
"We know the Tasmanian government pushed for mandatory sentencing of terrorist offences ⌠there was a broader discussion but in the end the only thing the prime minister could deliver was broader record-keeping."
Overnight, Israel's deputy foreign minister, Sharren Haskel, said it would be unsurprising if some of the anti-Semitic attacks in Australia had been funded by a foreign actor.
"We know that Iran is operating in different ways around the world ⌠and we have seen cases like that also in France and the United States and in other places," she said.
In 2023, soon after the outbreak of war in Gaza, Paris prosecutors alleged anti-Semitic graffiti had been carried out at the "express demand" of an individual living abroad, and that two of the alleged perpetrators claimed to have been remunerated for it.
Prosecutors said a Russian-language conversation on their telephones appeared to back up this claim.
Australian agencies have not detailed who they believe may have sought to fund crimes in Australia and have not identified any individual nation or group.
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