Paul Moss

And as you would imagine, just a short walk away, the crime scene is still being poured over by forensic officers.

And there is a very heavy police presence here as well.

Phil, we've heard there people blaming the Australian government for supposedly not doing enough to tackle anti-Semitism and also this intervention from the Israeli prime minister claiming the attacks could be linked to Australia recognising Palestine as a state.

I wonder how you think that's going to go down in Australia?

Well, we've just heard a press conference a few meters away from two senior members of the local Jewish community.

And they were saying that this is a day that they've been dreading.

And this was their nightmares coming true because of this wave of anti-Semitism that has swept across Australia since the attacks on the 7th of October and the start of Israel's war in Gaza.

And there is criticism in certain quarters that the Australian government has not done enough

to try to turn back that tide of anti-Semitism.

Has there been any reaction to those allegations or is it too soon?

I mean, particularly I was thinking of what the Israeli prime minister had to say, apparently directly blaming, it seemed, the Australian prime minister.

Yes, Anthony Albanese has sidestepped that particular issue, indicating that it's far too early to get involved in that sort of politics.

But certainly Australia's response to anti-Semitism will come under greater scrutiny.

Mr Albanese has said in the last 24 hours that his government has taken the issue of attacks on synagogues, on cars, on restaurants very seriously.

But of course,

What happened here will draw, once again, intense scrutiny on the government's recognition of the Palestinian state and also its response to anti-Semitism.

We've told that the older of the two suspects was a licensed gun holder.

And what strikes me is that Australia is often praised for having very tight gun control laws, tight restrictions on who gets to own a gun.

Presumably, there's now going to be questions raised about whether those laws really work.

Well, we heard from the New South Wales state premier, a man called Chris Minns, and he is suggesting that those gun laws could well be revisited.