Translation of video taken throughout alleged stabbing incident
Mostafa Rachwani
In a video shared through non-public WhatsApp teams, the alleged attacker is seen being held on the bottom contained in the church, surrounded by folks.
Amid the chaos, the alleged attacker will be heard talking. He allegedly says in Arabic:
If he [the bishop] didn’t get himself concerned in my faith, if he hadn’t spoken about my Prophet, I wouldn’t have come right here.
If he simply spoke about his personal faith, I wouldn’t have come.
The video reportedly exhibits the mayhem that adopted the assault, with folks in bloodied garments strolling round because the alleged attacker is held towards the bottom.
It’s unclear who was holding him down and why, or if there have been any authorities current on the time.
Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel, who has a preferred on-line presence, has beforehand criticised Islam and the Prophet Muhammad in public sermons.
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Tory Shepherd
Bruce Lehrmann exits out of ‘Restoring the Presumption of Innocence’ convention
Bruce Lehrmann has pulled out of a convention referred to as “Restoring the Presumption of Innocence” the day after Justice Michael Lee discovered that, on the steadiness of chances, he raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament Home in 2019.
The sponsors, Moms of Sons, stated Lehrmann “determined to not seem”. They posted on Fb:
He’s being topic to extraordinarily aggressive pursuit by the media and is anxious that his participation might threaten the viewers, jeopardise this necessary occasion, and distract from its major objective.
Bettina Arndt, who describes her work as “denouncing feminism and advocating for males’s rights”, is organising the convention together with Australians for Science and Freedom (ASF).
In promotional materials shared by Arndt earlier than the trial, Lehrmann is described because the “poster boy for trial by media” who has “endured years of getting his fame trashed”.
ASF includes individuals who “objected to the federal government’s response to the pandemic”, that materials stated.
The convention is sponsored by Moms of Sons, who describe themselves as a gaggle of ladies whose “sons have confronted extraordinary ordeals in our unjust, anti-male authorized programs and workplaces”.
They stated the convention would go forward with an alternate presenter:
[While] guaranteeing that the Lehrmann case nonetheless receives acceptable consideration on the convention as a robust instance of trial by media undermining the important authorized precept of the presumption of innocence.
There was already a petition to cancel the occasion, which is scheduled for June 1 at a thriller location in Rushcutters Bay. Tickets are $110 for ASF members and $132 for non members.
Eden Gillespie
Queensland’s well being minister Shannon Fentiman says she is “working very intently” with the state’s psychological well being commissioner and housing minister following the Bondi mass stabbing incident on Saturday.
Joel Cauchi, the Queensland man who killed six folks in Bondi, was recognized with psychological sickness when he was a youngster and had reportedly been sleeping in his automobile or in backpacker’s lodging within the lead as much as the incident.
The state’s solely impartial MP, Sandy Bolton, requested Fentiman about how the federal government might help these with critical psychological well being points in mild of the stabbing incident.
Fentiman stated the state authorities is investing $1.6bn over 5 years in psychological well being care and providers:
I’m additionally working very intently with the minister for housing and the psychological well being commissioner to have a look at what extra we will present supported lodging.
Phrases can not specific how devastating the assault was that we noticed come out on Saturday afternoon. And naturally my condolences go to the chums and households of those that had been killed alongside everybody else and witnesses on the hospital which might be nonetheless recuperating.
Shut name for alleged drink-driver in Victoria
A 42-year-old man from Doncaster East had a fortunate escape after his automobile was left hanging over a 5-metre drop final night time.
In line with an announcement from Victoria police, the person allegedly reversed by a backyard mattress, earlier than crashing right into a fence and ending up along with his automobile precariously balanced on the sting of a retaining wall at Blackburn buying centre at about 6.25pm final night time.
The automobile was winched up by Hearth Rescue whereas the person was nonetheless inside, after which pulled to security within the automobile park.
Officers spoke to the motive force who allegedly returned a studying of .255 on an evidentiary breath check, which police stated is greater than 5 instances the authorized restrict.
His licence was instantly suspended and he’s anticipated to be charged on summons with drink-driving offences.
RMIT journalism scholar Mia Cutugno shared this picture of the incident:
Peter Hannam
Shopper confidence perked up a bit of however Sydney unease gained’t assist
The financial system hasn’t been the centre of reports recently for comprehensible causes. We do get March jobs figures on Thursday which will create just a few ripples within the media pond, relying on how robust or weak they’re.
Australians’ shopper confidence, in the meantime, improved a tad final week however “stays stubbornly weak”, in accordance to ANZ/Roy Morgan and their survey of 1,509 folks within the week to Sunday.
Inflation expectations additionally improved a bit, easing 0.1% to five.2%. (We get the ABS’s March CPI quarter numbers on 24 April.)
Markets have tons to churn over, although, together with indicators the US financial system is operating a bit hotter than traders anticipated. Inflation there has halted its current decline, prompting forecasts different nations will face related challenges to rein-in worth will increase.
For Australia, traders have nudged again to December the month they’re totally pricing in an RBA rate of interest lower from 4.35% to 4.1%, in accordance with the ASX charges tracker.
China, in the meantime, will launch its March quarter GDP figures (and a bunch of others) at midday, AEST. Economists expect annual progress to come back in at 4.8% (versus 5.2% for 2023).
Statistics from China have a tendency to attract some scepticism. Nonetheless, a stronger-than-expected GDP progress quantity (or indicators of a slowing of the slide in property gross sales) will most likely revive confidence in regards to the power of the world’s second-biggest financial system. (Or the reverse.)
We’ll discover out quickly sufficient if optimism or pessimism wins out on that individual entrance.
Josh Butler
Asio boss says proof suggesting spiritual motivation led to fast labelling as terror incident
Earlier, the Asio boss, Mike Burgess, defined why the church stabbing was categorized shortly as a terror incident.
He stated the incident seemed to be religiously motivated, however that there was no indication of wider risk or hazard to the group, or any indication that there was anybody else concerned – however wouldn’t say when the alleged offender, a 16-year-old, first got here to police consideration, or if he might have been radicalised on-line.
Easy reply is, to name it a terrorist act, you want indications of data or proof that counsel really the motivation was religiously motivated or ideologically motivated. Within the case of Saturday [the stabbing at Bondi Junction], that was not the case. On this case, the data now we have and the police have earlier than us signifies that’s strongly the case. That’s the reason it was referred to as an act of terrorism.
However it’s prudent that we do that to find out there’s no threats or rapid threats to safety. Right now, we’re not seeing that.
Burgess defined that one incident of terror didn’t really elevate the fear risk stage that Asio units, which is at the moment at “doable”.
After we lowered the terrorism risk stage to doable, I stated on the time ‘doable’ doesn’t imply ‘negligible’ and the most certainly assault is a person that goes to violence with little or no warning with a knife, automobile or gun … Our investigation and help of the police continues.
‘Western Sydney is united in standing towards all types of hatred and violence’: Chris Bowen
The federal local weather change and vitality minister, Chris Bowen, has additionally issued an announcement after final night time’s stabbing incident:
Such violence has no place in any group.
We stand in solidarity with the Assyrian group, condemning this heinous act, and sending power for a swift restoration to Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and others who had been victims of this assault.
Western Sydney is united in standing towards all types of hatred and violence. Thanks to the service women and men who’re aiding our group at this troublesome time.
Josh Butler
AFP commissioner labels assaults on police outdoors Wakeley church ‘un-Australian’
The AFP commissioner, Reece Kershaw, and the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, have been scathing of assaults on police outdoors the Wakeley church final night time. At their press convention earlier, Kershaw referred to as it “a disgraceful act from the group who attacked police at that scene”.
My help goes to the New South Wales police commissioner and the New South Wales law enforcement officials who had been there to guard the group. It was actually un-Australian to see that occur final night time.
Albanese referred to as the stabbing assault on the bishop as a “disturbing incident”, saying “there isn’t a place for violence in our group, there’s no place for violent extremism”:
Can I say that we perceive the misery and issues which might be there locally, significantly after the tragic occasion at Bondi Junction on Saturday. However it’s not acceptable to impede and injure police doing their obligation, or to wreck police autos in a means that we noticed final night time.
Individuals shouldn’t take the regulation into their very own fingers however ought to permit our police, and our safety companies, to do their job. My job as prime minister is to offer them that help. And I’ll proceed to take action.
NSW opposition chief joins premier and religion leaders in calling for calm
The NSW opposition chief, Mark Speakman, has issued an announcement on the stabbing incident in Wakeley in a single day.
He stated his ideas and prayers are with victims of the assault, and with police and paramedics who “exercised their duties underneath extraordinarily troublesome situations”.
Speakman stated the response by “some members of the general public was unacceptable”.
The scenes we noticed final night time haven’t any place in NSW.
I be a part of with the premier and religion leaders in calling for calm.
Speakman stated NSW is “one of many best testaments to multiculturalism” and through these instances “we should come collectively to help each other”.
He added:
It will be significant that individuals obtain their data from official sources and don’t contribute to hypothesis and misinformation by social media.
The Greens chief, Adam Bandt, says he’s “horrified” by the stabbing incident in western Sydney in a single day.
In a put up to X, he stated:
We should recommit ourselves to working collectively for peace and tolerance.
The Greens condemn the surprising violence in Wakeley, together with the [alleged] violence towards first responders, and be a part of the requires calm.
Supermarkets inquiry threatens to carry Woolworths CEO in contempt
Jonathan Barrett
An Australian parliamentary inquiry has threatened to carry Brad Banducci, the chief govt of Woolworths, in contempt for repeatedly refusing to reply questions in regards to the firm’s profitability.
The Greens senator Nick McKim, who’s chairing the Senate inquiry into grocery store practices, ordered a brief suspension within the hearings this morning after telling Banducci he could also be held in contempt:
I additionally really feel compelled to advise you that that opens up a spread of sanctions, private sanctions that may be utilized towards you, if that’s what the Senate decides to do.
McKim stated an individual discovered to be in contempt may very well be topic to a penalty of as much as six months’ imprisonment.
Banducci was repeatedly requested by the Senate committee to reveal the corporate’s return on fairness, an necessary gauge of profitability, amid claims that it worth gouges prospects and unfairly places strain on suppliers.
Banducci declined to reply the query, preferring to quote a special revenue metric.