Bondi shooting live updates: Frydenberg delivers angry speech as Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s funeral overflows with mourners in Sydney; Akrams’ Philippines trip, links to Islamic State probed by police

Former Liberal treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s passionate speech at the site of the Bondi massacre represents one of the most striking speeches by a prominent Jewish Australian since Sunday’s shooting.

With a delivery that ranged from emotional to furious over several minutes, it captured the crowd and reflected the deep pain and anger being felt in Australia’s Jewish community.

It also stands out for two other reasons, which will have political ramifications.

First, it was a direct and unequivocal condemnation of the prime minister, singling out Anthony Albanese for having failed Jewish Australians.

“It’s time for him to accept personal responsibility for the death of 15 innocent people, including a 10-year-old child,” Frydenberg said of the prime minister.

This is a significant escalation in the political debate.

Other key figures, including Israel’s ambassador to Australia, have said they don’t want to point fingers in the aftermath of Sunday’s attack, and steered clear of apportioning blame.

But Frydenberg has made clear he thinks political pressure should be directed towards the federal government.

Second, Frydenberg has set out a path for action that can be used to judge the government when it comes to tackling antisemitism.

The Albanese government has been pointing to its record – such as toughening hate speech laws, appointing an antisemitism envoy, and funding Jewish institutions – as it says it is acting to stamp out a scourge of antisemitism.

But with an eight point list, Frydenberg has set out additional areas of federal policy – from education and immigration, to a royal commission and shutting down protests – where he wants further action.

While some are controversial, they nonetheless set a fresh yardstick that the opposition and Jewish community could use to test the seriousness of the government’s response.

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has questioned whether the prime minister has been present in Bondi, after he was not seen at the funeral of Rabbi Eli Schlanger earlier today.

“You really had to be there, and you really had to experience the grief, which was physical and everywhere in the synagogue and outside it,” Ley said at a press conference in Bondi.

“As I walked out holding yet another Jewish woman who herself, had held a dying friend in her arms.

“I am literally without words, and it is so important, as Julian [Leeser] just said, for the prime minister to experience, to listen, to understand.“”

“Has [Albanese] reassured the Jewish community? Is he here at Bondi? Has he walked the streets as we have? Has he listened?” Ley asked.

Albanese attended the memorial at Bondi on Monday, and has visited multiple victims in hospital since Sunday’s attack.

Nationals Leader David Littleproud has challenged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to act on antisemitism and enact the recommendations of a report prepared by special envoy Jillian Segal.

Speaking at Bondi, Littleproud said Australian society had “slipped”, and “we cannot hand to the next generation a society where antisemitism is something that has just become part of the norm”.

“That’s not the Australia I grew up in, and that’s not the Australia I intend to leave behind. It shouldn’t matter what your faith is. It shouldn’t matter who you are. You should be able to go and celebrate your faith, to worship in a joyous way, in a safe environment,” he said.

“That’s the Australia I grew up in. That’s the Australia that everybody who’s come to this place wants, and in fact, has come here for that refuge, and that that is now our challenge, that is now our opportunity to reset that legacy because we will have failed this nation, and we will have failed the generations ahead of us.

“If we don’t look at ourselves in the mirror and say, we have got this wrong. If we don’t have the courage to do that, then we have lost our country. This is our moment,” he said.

“This was the prime minister’s moment, and I challenge him to take it and to take this country with us because we cannot afford to lose this country any further.”

The NSW Police probationary constable who was shot in the head and shoulder by terrorists faces a “long and challenging recovery” after “miraculously” surviving the injuries sustained on Sunday.

Jack Hibbert, 22, had been a police officer for only four months when he was stationed in Bondi as Sajid and Naveed Akram opened fire at a Hanukkah event, killing 15 people and injuring dozens.

In a statement released by NSW Police, Hibbert’s family said he paid a “great personal cost” for his commitment to protect the community.

“In the face of a violent and tragic incident, he responded with courage, instinct, and selflessness, continuing to protect and help others whilst injured, until he was physically no longer able to,” the statement said.

His family said Hibbert had been taken to ICU where he was intubated and underwent multiple surgeries.

“Although miraculously surviving, Jack’s injuries have resulted in a loss of vision in one of his eyes, and he now faces a long and challenging recovery ahead, with additional surgeries required.”

The statement said Hibbert had moved toward people in need, not away from danger, and had continued helping others while he was seriously injured.

“Many of his colleagues who were present on the night of the incident have visited in hospital and given testaments to Jack’s bravery during the incident, describing his devotion to his community.”

Hibbert and Constable Scott Dyson were the two officers hospitalised with injuries after responding to the terrorists. Both remain in hospital in critical but stable conditions.

Wentworth MP Allegra Spender and Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, were among politicians and community leaders attending the funeral service for Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in the Bondi attack on Sunday.

Schlanger, 41, was remembered as loving friend and mentor, and a father-of-five whose children were “forever … his number one”. He will be buried at Rookwood Cemetery later this afternoon.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese must earn his title by standing up to antisemitism, former treasurer Josh Frydenberg has said as he finished a fiery speech at a memorial for the Bondi attack.

Frydenberg also said there should be a royal commission into antisemitism in Australia.

“Guns may have stolen the life of 15 innocent civilians, but it was radical Islamist ideology that pulled the trigger. And if you, prime minister, can’t say those words: Islamist ideology, if you can’t speak them, you can’t solve them,” Frydenberg said.

“Prime minister, you have failed us. Your government has failed us. You sit in a chair. It is time you earned that title .If you don’t want to do the job, give it to somebody who will.”

Frydenberg questioned how the two shooters in the massacre were radicalised, and why there were so few police at the Hanukkah event the pair targeted on Sunday.

He also recommended a ban on “hate preachers”, and called for an end to pro-Palestinian protests, which he said were taking place daily and had become “incubators of hate”.

He also called for the prosecution of “those who incite violence and [the] hate that has produced this”, including the use of the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”.

Frydenberg also urged better education on antisemitism, and said antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal’s recommendations from a long-awaited review into the issue must be implemented.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger’s funeral service has closed with a prayer, before he is buried in Sydney later today.

His father-in-law, Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, of the Chabad of Bondi Synagogue, and Rabbi Yehuda Niasoff, of the nearby Central Synagogue, recited the memorial prayer in Hebrew.

Various rabbis who attended the service acted as pallbearers as Schlanger’s coffin was moved from the synagogue to be transported for burial at Rookwood cemetery later this afternoon.

Earlier, Ulman had paid tribute to Schlanger’s contribution to the Jewish community, particularly to those who were in prison or in personal crisis, before the “unthinkable” happened on Sunday night.

“He would drive three or four hours each way, for one single prisoner. And he would have weekly Zoom calls with him.”

Ulman also shared how Schlanger had prayed for and supported a suicidal man, and he vowed to continue and honour the slain rabbi’s contributions to the community.

He encouraged the mourners to remain resolute in their faith, saying “no matter how great the pain is, a Jew remains a believer”.

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the Bondi shooting is “the greatest stain on this nation”, angrily warning another attack will follow if the federal government does not combat antisemitism.

Frydenberg, who is Jewish, seized a visit to the Bondi Pavilion to describe the massacre as “an attack on Australia”, arguing it had “brought the greatest shame to our nation”.

“This massacre at Bondi is the greatest stain on this nation … I’m here to mourn, but I am also here to warn,” Frydenberg said.

“Unless our governments, federal and state, take urgent, unprecedented and strong action, as night follows day, we will be back grieving the loss of innocent life in another terrorist attack in our country. This was all too predictable,” he said.

“Make no mistake: I am here, we are here, to fight for the soul of Australia and to fight for the soul of the Australian-Jewish community.”

The former Coalition minister pointed to “heinous scenes” of antisemitism since the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, including a demonstration at the Sydney Opera House and “daily protests of hate” in Australia.

“I am here, we are here to fight for the soul of Australia and to fight for the survival of the Australian Jewish community that has been here since the arrival of the first fleet,” he said.