SYDNEY: Australia’s spy agency was “stretched” by threats on many fronts in the lead-up to an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi in December, the nation’s intelligence chief said Monday. Sajid Akram and son Naveed are accused of opening fire as Jewish families thronged Bondi Beach for a Hanukkah celebration, killing 15 people in Australia’s worst mass shooting in decades. Top security official Mike Burgess fronted an inquiry into the shootings, where he was asked about Australia’s counter-terror capabilities.

Counter-terror authorities and police will face the royal commission this week as haunting photographs of the festival later targeted by terrorists emerge.

An Australian spy agency boss has told an inquiry he had pivoted resources away from counterterrorism to espionage and foreign a few years before two gunmen massacred 15 people at…

SYDNEY: Australia’s spy agency was “stretched” by threats on many fronts in the lead-up to an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi in December, the nation’s intelligence chief said…

SYDNEY: Australia's spy agency was "stretched" by threats on many fronts in the lead-up to an antisemitic mass shooting at Bondi in December, the nation's intelligence chief said…

By Christine ChenSYDNEY, May 25 (Reuters) - Antisemitism in Australia was left unchecked after the October 2023 outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, fuelling violence against Jewish…

Australia’s spy chief on Monday told an inquiry into the Bondi Beach mass shooting that anti-Semitism was left unchecked in the country after the start of the war in…

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Unchecked antisemitism after Oct. 7 helped normalize threats and violence against Jewish Australians, ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess says, as inquiry examines police…