Remarks to the Jewish community in St Kilda
We meet today at a time of profound sorrow.
In the shadow of terrorist acts that are truly abhorrent.
We have seen unimaginable atrocities, targeting children.
The most innocent of lives, stolen in the most barbaric of ways.
Over 1,000 people in Israel have been killed, as many as 150 people taken from Israel and held hostage in Gaza.
This is the worst loss of life for Jewish people on a single day in history since the Holocaust.
A fact that bears such awful weight for a people who have known the horror of genocide.



