Australia News: PM Recall, Trump, Golden Globes Update
- Over the summer break, calls for a royal commission into the Bondi beach massacre saturated headlines across parts of the media.
- Nour haydar speaks with political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy on the political reverberations from the Bondi attack and the tests that lie ahead for Labor in 2026.
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Anthony Albanese has recalled parliament two weeks early after teh bondi terror attack. The prime minister will push the Coalition and the greens to support urgent legislation proposing tougher hate speech laws and gun reform, which he hopes will pass the Senate by next Tuesday night.
Sussan Ley said she wasn’t given the draft bill before Albanese’s announcement and the opposition is “deeply sceptical” of Labor’s decision to tie hate speech reforms with a gun buy-back scheme under one piece of legislation.
In New South Wales, the Minns goverment announced new laws that would give councils stronger powers to shut down unlawful places of worship as part of a crackdown on “factories of hate”.
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Anthony Albanese bows to Bondi pressure
Over the summer break, calls for a royal commission into the Bondi beach massacre saturated headlines across parts of the media. and last week the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, launched a royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion.
Nour haydar speaks with political correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy on the political reverberations from the Bondi attack and the tests that lie ahead for Labor in 2026.