What we've learned from the Royal Commission
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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz. It's Thursday the 14th of May. I'm Zara Seidler.
I'm Sam Kozlowski.
Today marks the end of the first block of public hearings for the Royal Commission into antisemitism and social cohesion. Over the past fortnight, we've heard the lived experiences of Jewish Australians and their varied experiences with antisemitism. In today's podcast, we're going to explain where we're at with this Royal Commission, what we've learned from the interim report and what comes next. But first, here's a quick message from Adela in our team.
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So Zara, today's the final day in this first block of testimonies in the Royal Commission. I want to start this episode a couple of months ago, perhaps, and actually look at the origins of this Royal Commission. Set the scene for me of how we got to this point.
What is the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion?
Yeah, I won't labour on this because we've spoken about it on the podcast before. In fact, when it was announced and then when we were starting the commission, the commission was beginning, we spoke about its origins, but just to run people through it. So in December of last year the Bondi terrorist attack happened. That was an attack against Sydney's Jewish community at a Hanukkah event and following that attack in December there began this growing momentum around first within the Jewish community, but then the broader Australian community about the need for a Royal Commission. At first, we had Anthony Albanese suggest that there were already these other investigations happening, that we didn't need a Royal Commission.
But then in January, he did announce that we were going to have a Royal Commission. And it kicked off shortly afterwards. And as you said, we've now just closed the first round of those public hearings.
And just remind me of the other investigations that were taking place that have now been superseded by this commission.
Yeah, it's a bit confusing, but basically one of the reasons Anthony Albanese gave for not having a royal commission was that he had already tasked someone called Dennis Richardson. Yeah. with an investigation into what happened from the angle of our intelligence agencies. So Dennis Richardson was really tasked with understanding who knew what, when, and basically if there was a failure of the intelligence agencies there. When the Royal Commission was announced, his investigation was basically folded into the Royal Commission and he was brought on as a special advisor to the Royal Commission.
So there were kind of like, you know, five different areas, let's say, of this Royal Commission, one of which was this existing review.
Yeah, exactly, one of which so, I mean, we've spoken briefly about the fact that we've heard this week about lived experiences. Another one is the intelligence agencies and that was really where his kind of lane was. He did resign from the commission though a few months ago and he basically said he felt surplus to the requirements, that he wasn't needed during that commission. But that work is still going forward without him at the helm.
And so that work is all kind of now happening in the background in terms of that aspect of the commission's scope?
No, it's actually not.
What experiences have Jewish Australians shared during the hearings?
So it's happening... The next public hearings are about the intelligence agencies.
And so give me a sense then of...
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