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Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke has been speaking on Radio National.
He said no government would ever be able to say they have done enough on antisemitism:
The fight against anti-Semitism is an ancient fight that will never end, and there will never be a point, never be a point where any government of the day will have the right to say they have done enough on anti-Semitism.
We are no longer the nation where we had the government of the day a decade ago claiming that the right that mattered was the right to be a bigot. The right that matters is the right for people to be able to be free, to have a celebration at the beach and to do so safely.
That’s the freedom that matters, not the freedom that somehow under freedom of speech you can go off and belittle and demean and dehumanise your fellow Australians.