Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

First, again, as the Prime Minister and others, including myself, have done: our personal condolences to Ms Gutnick and to all those who have lost a loved one in this horrific attack. It was an attack that was targeted, evil, antisemitic and ISIS inspired, and it was an attack on Jewish Australians—and all of us grieve for every person, every family and every community that has been made to suffer because of hate filled and senseless violence.

The Prime Minister has made very clear the sense of responsibility and the weight of responsibility that he feels for an atrocity that happened, as he said, while he is Prime Minister, and he has said publicly he is sorry for the grief and pain that the Jewish community and the entire nation have experienced, as have I.

Our responsibility now is to do all we can to ensure this does not happen again. That is the solemn responsibility that this government and this parliament have. That is what we are seeking to do—to listen to the Jewish community the entire nation—