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Shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash has pleaded with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to legislate mandatory minimum sentences for acts of Commonwealth terrorism, arguing that the newly announced sanctions on white supremacist network Terrorgram do not go far enough.As antisemitic attacks continue to flare across the country – including the discovery of a caravan full of explosives in Sydney last week – the Coalition has called on the government to do more to address the growing crisis.
You now have Jewish people in Australia who fear for their lives, fear for their safety, are worried about their homes, are worried about their places of business, and this can be squarely put down to a failure of the prime minister to take decisive action,” Cash told Nine’s Today.Cash questioned where the prime minister has been since “pro-Hamas rallies” took place at the Sydney Opera House in October 2023.
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