From tolerance to terror

Teach Australian values of tolerance, respect. This was an attack on Australia, and this needs root and branch change in our education system, so that this never happens again.

Sixth, Prime Minister, put in place a much more effective, rigorous and strong immigration system. On your watch, thousands of people have come from a terrorist hotspot without sufficient security checks.

Your Home Affairs Minister, who couldn't even put his face here in day time, has to send officials out of the room to make promises about ISIS brides.

You tell me how that is in Australia's national interest. You tell me how bringing people to this country who don't accept, who don't know, our democratic ideals, our values of tolerance, you tell me how that makes any of us, Jew and non-Jew alike, more safe.

It doesn't, and until you change our immigration system to remind people it's a privilege to come to this country, it's a privilege to stay in this country, it's not a right, then nothing will change.

Seven, Prime Minister, and this brings great shame to you and your Home Affairs Minister and your government.

Your hand-picked special envoy on anti-Semitism put together a comprehensive program that had initiatives from everything from the digital and media space to our universities and to our creative arts to hard security to soft security.

She talks in that report about more resources for operational ­security, and today we're talking about a graphic and tragic failure of operational security.

Yet she presented her report to your government more than 150 days ago, in July of this year.

It has been gathering dust on your desk.

If there was ever a metaphor, if there was ever a sign, if there was ever an example, if there was ever an illustration of your failure, of your government's failure, to treat the dangerous rise of anti-Semitism with the urgency and the importance that it deserves, that was it.

For 150-plus days, you had the report and you did nothing.