‘PM, how did you let it get to this?’: Frydenberg calls on Albanese to ‘step up’

Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg has called on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to “step up” after the firebombing of a synagogue in Melbourne on Friday. Emergency services were called to Addas Israel Synagogue of Melbourne in Ripponlea, near St Kilda, on Friday at about 4:10am after calls about a building fire. The synagogue has sustained significant damage. “Today, I penned a letter to our Prime Minister. It was a call to action. Enough is enough,” Mr Frydenberg said at a media conference on Saturday alongside former Labor senator Nova Peris. “The terrorist attack at the Addas Synagogue was just the latest in a long list of antisemitic attacks that has occurred on the Prime Minister’s watch in our country since October the 7th last year. “Prime Minster, how did you let it get to this, where social cohesion in Australia has broken down, where the Australian Jewish community lives in fear, where antisemitism has become normalised? “Please, Prime Minister, see what is happening, understand what is happening, and act. “You and your ministers need to step up, not step back from the challenges we face.”