Anthony Albanese has announced $8.5 million in funding for the Sydney Jewish Museum in the city’s east after a spate of antisemitic attacks.
Speaking from the Jewish Museum in Darlinghurst today, the Prime Minister said he unequivocally condemned the “shameful” violent acts.
“We need an end to antisemitism, it is evil, it diminishes us as a nation,” Albanese told reporters.
“To awake to this latest attack just a matter of couple of kilometres from here.
“To see since then as well, there’s been graffiti…that is completely abhorrent to who we are as Australians.
Albanese said the additional funding would ensure that “we learn the lessons of history that this museum shows us”.
“Our whole Australian society is enriched by people living side by side of different faith, different ethnicities, different backgrounds,” he said.
Wentworth MP Allegra Spender toured the museum alongside Albanese and Sydney MP Tanya Plibersek.
She said the latest attack was “absolutely heartbreaking”, because it intended to send fear into the community.
“But when I talk to my broader community, and every Australian I’ve spoken to, they say, you know what that is, that is not us,” she said.
“You know, we do not tolerate this sort of behaviour. That has to be that message to the country.”
