In March, Australia’s ruling Labor regime censured Senator Pauline Hanson for opposing bringing ISIS members to Australia. According to the senate censure resolution, Hanson’s “inflammatory and divisive comments seeking to vilify Muslim Australians, which do not reflect the opinions of the Australian Senate or the Australian people” who are supposed to love ISIS.
In the film Mad Max, an oil shortage leaves Australian society teetering on the brink of total collapse.
In real-life, things aren’t quite that dystopian yet Down Under. But with barely a month of stockpiled diesel left and hundreds of forecourts running dry, the anxiety is palpable.
Australia has one of the highest per-capita rates of diesel consumption in the world but it relies almost entirely on imports to meet that demand. There are two domestic refineries producing petrol but up to 90pc of that is imported, too.
Anthony Albanese was chased out of Australia’s largest mosque by Muslims voicing anger over his stance on Israel’s offensive in Gaza.
The Australian prime minister was called a “putrid dog” and a “genocide supporter”, referring to Israel’s killing of Palestinians following the Oct 7 2023 attack by Hamas terrorists.
Mr Albanese has drawn criticism from parts of both the Muslim and Jewish communities in Australia over his centre-Left government’s support for both a ceasefire and Israel’s right to self-defence.
The leftist Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, who has repeatedly expressed harsh positions against Israel in light of the war in Gaza and is an enthusiastic supporter of the establishment of a "palestinian" state, came to visit the largest mosque in Australia on the… pic.twitter.com/SrANKwc3DU
— The Daily News (@DailyNewsJustIn) March 20, 2026
Australian women and children held for years without charge were forced to return to a detention camp in northeast Syria on Monday after being released by Kurdish authorities for their expected repatriation to Australia.
The 34 women and children in the group are the wives, widows and children of dead or jailed Islamic State fighters and were being held at al-Roj camp, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
They were initially handed over to relatives who had helped arrange for their repatriation and were on their way to Damascus to leave the country when they were asked to stop on the way and turn back to the camp.
In broad daylight, two monuments were smashed in Melbourne’s Flagstaff Gardens last week. One of them was an 1871 memorial to the city’s earliest British settlers; the other commemorated Victoria’s separation from New South Wales in 1850. These monuments not only were sledgehammered, but daubed with the ugly words ‘death to Australia’ and the provocative, hateful triangle symbol of Hamas.
It wouldn’t be Australia’s national day without such acts of vandalism, meant to deface the anniversary of the day a British convict settlement was proclaimed at Sydney. Last year, it was statues of James Cook, the man who, until the 1970s, was hailed and celebrated as Australia’s discoverer. These acts of destruction against symbols of Australia’s colonial past carry their own symbolism, the perpetrators’ acts of defiance against a nation and society they abhor.
Australian politician Pauline Hanson has been kept largely at arms-length by the electorate ever since she declared, 30 years ago, that her country was ‘being swamped by Asians’. But her exodus to the political fringe appears to have ended. A recent poll put her party, One Nation, in second place, which has rocked the political establishment.
‘We think religion is a private affair. But what happens when we accept immigrants from cultures where they think religion is not private but that actually it’s the only thing in politics that matters?’
Confronted at very short notice with the need to respond to an egregious hate crime – the slaughter in Sydney of 15 Jews by radical Islamists – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese completely exposed the moral vacuum at the heart of Western democracy.
Instead of damning the perpetrators for what they were, he blathered on about a general confrontation with extremism — right-wing extremism, no less — and the need for harsher gun laws.
It was a Sunday afternoon in April 1996 when a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic rifles killed 35 people in the Australian tourist town of Port Arthur.
The massacre almost 30 years ago, which ushered in some of the strictest gun laws in the world, feels like a bygone age for many Australians.
But the Bondi Beach attack on Sunday, which left 15 dead, rekindled memories of the Tasmanian tragedy – none more so than for leading gun control advocate Roland Browne.
Making your citizens prey for Muslims is a swell idea.
h/t Mauser
Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed has been labelled a “traitor” in the Arab world for tackling a terrorist gunman and saving the lives of Jews at Bondi.
When the Facebook page for the Palestinian news source Ramallah News posted Mr Ahmed’s story, most of the hundreds of comments were hostile towards his lifesaving actions.
“Treason comes to you from the closest people” and “he sold himself and his life for the safety of the Jews” were among the comments.
“I wish it (the bullet) hit your heart,” one commentator said, while another said “May Allah not heal you”.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government will crack down on hate speech following Sunday’s deadly shooting at Bondi Beach that targeted a Jewish festival.
Fifteen people were killed when two gunmen opened fire at an event to mark the first day of Hanukkah.
New laws will target “those who spread hate, division and radicalisation”, Albanese told reporters in Canberra.
COUNTER TERRORISM POLICE DETAIN FIVE MEN IN LIVERPOOL ON WAY TO BONDI
The allegation is that a group of men travelled from Melbourne with plans to then go to Bondi.
The group was being monitored and counter terrorism police intervened, according to one report by ramming the car… pic.twitter.com/NHv4v4NcyY
— Australian Jewish Association (@AustralianJA) December 18, 2025
🚨BREAKING: In Australia, heavily armed tactical police swooped on a group of men believed to be heading to Bondi Beach. Acting on intelligence that a violent act may have been planned.pic.twitter.com/HzJKYxDS2C
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) December 18, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
The ISIS-terrorist dad killed during the Bondi Beach massacre had transferred his family home into his wife’s name — seen as a “final insult” to the slain and injured that could stop their loved ones getting compensation.
Sajid Akram, 50, put the three-bedroom Sydney property under the sole name of his wife, Venera Akram, in February last year, Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported.
More Christmas ham deliveries are needed.
Australia is poised to overhaul its gun laws in the wake of the terror attack on Jewish festivalgoers at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Monday tabled changes to national laws at a meeting of the National Cabinet, a roundtable of the nation’s federal, state and territory leaders.
They includes bringing into effect a national firearms register, which is anticipated would allow information sharing on gun owners across state borders.
There was an air of inevitability as news spread of the massacre at the Hanukkah event on Bondi Beach yesterday. A friend in Sydney told me that almost everyone had been expecting something like this. Counter-terrorism analysts I spoke to yesterday and local media coverage said the same thing.
There is little mystery about the motive here. Sajid and Naveed Akram, the father and son who killed 15 people — including a Holocaust survivor, two rabbis, and a ten-year-old girl — had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (Isis), according to Australian security sources. Naveed, in particular, had been investigated six years ago due to his ties to an Isis cell.
Barbarism has come to Bondi. Waking up to news this morning that at least 16 people have been killed, and at least 29 have been injured, following an anti-Semitic terror attack at the iconic beach in Australia, prompted that familiar mix of sickness, horror and grim inevitability.
As it stands, we know there were at least two (alleged) gunmen. One, Naveed Akram, was killed at the scene. The other, whose identity hasn’t been released, is in critical condition. The scum opened fire with rifles at a Hanukkah party. The authorities are thus treating it as an anti-Semitic terror attack, although it took some media outlets an oddly long time to put two and two together. Police are probing reports of a third attacker, and have found an improvised explosive device in a car.
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Gunmen killed at least 11 people at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach. The shootings, described by police as a terrorist attack, follows a string of antisemitic incidents since the start of the Gaza war https://t.co/n1GdMzYqvR pic.twitter.com/Uq0NMjgghu— Reuters (@Reuters) December 14, 2025
🇦🇺 A guy curb stomped the head of a shooter one of Bondi Beach, Australia gunmen.
“F**king bastard” pic.twitter.com/MCmQKBcseK
— Nucleus (@nucleusnewss) December 14, 2025
