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NSW premier Chris Minns quickly condemned the vandalism in Woollahra, which he called a “shocking” antisemitic attack.
“This is not the Sydney we want,” he said. “These racist attempts to divide our city won’t work.
I’ll speaking to police this morning. [The vandals] will be found and they will face the full force of the law.
Anti-Israel graffiti attack on cars in eastern Sydney
Police are investigating after cars and buildings were vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney’s east.
About 1am this morning, emergency services responded to reports of a vehicle on fire in Magney Street, Woollahra, NSW police said in a statement.
This vehicle, along with another, two buildings and the footpath along Magney Street, had been graffitied.
Images shown in multiple media reports show some of the graffiti was anti-Israel.
Police said they wished to speak with two people believed to have been in the vicinity at the time. They are described as of slim build, between 15-20 years of age, wearing face coverings, and dark clothing.
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Police are investigating after vehicles and buildings were damaged in Sydney’s eastern suburbs: a car was set on fire and buildings were daubed with anti-Israel graffiti. The premier, Chris Minns, called it a “shocking” antisemitic attack. More on this coming up.
With the Reserve Bank cutting off the economic escape route for Labor with every passing month, Anthony Albanese will dangle a big childcare subsidy to voters today in his government’s latest bid to wrestle the cost-of-living beast to the ground. We’ll have all the details when he speaks later this morning.
Peter Dutton is this week expected to announce the long-awaited costings for his plan to build nuclear reactors in Australia. It comes as a former CSIRO energy director has said Dutton’s suggestion that the agency’s damning report on the cost of nuclear energy was influenced by the government is “incredibly disappointing” and “absurd”.
Telstra announced overnight that it has paid a $3m fine to the Australian Communications and Media Authority over a disruption to its triple-zero emergency call centre in the early hours of 1 March this year. More coming up.
