Paul Moss

overlooking Bondi Pavilion, which is ordinarily a hub for the community.

Today, it is a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Sydney shooting on Sunday.

Flowers are arriving every single minute by people coming down

to pay their respects and to have a brief moment of thought and calm in this sea of chaos that erupted here.

It is beyond this particular bit of park, very quiet.

Bondi Beach mostly has been shut down by the police.

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.