He also met with the Republican Speaker & others at the capitol and other events
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A shot is doing the rounds claiming to show Bondi Royal Commissioner Virginia Bell in the front rank of the Sydney Harbour Bridge pro-Palestine demonstration. It is not her (fairly obviously). The pic is of Mary Kostakidis. pic.twitter.com/mJ73Y2fwSk
— Hugh Riminton (@hughriminton) January 9, 2026
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Ombudsman Investigation Report
The Ombudsman’s Office received 115 content complaints specifically about an episode of ABC podcast Politics Now entitled ‘John Howard’s warning to Anthony Albanese’ published on 16 December 2025 about the political fallout from the Bondi terror attack.
The Ombudsman’s Office also received 394 complaints about an interview with Josh Frydenberg on 7.30, broadcast on 17 December 2025. Those audience members are being responded to directly by the 7.30 program team. Many of those complaints also referred to the episode of Politics Now which is the subject of this Investigation Report
The Ombudsman observed that many audience members who complained were concerned that the comment “Got nothing to do with religion” referred to the victims and the targeting of Jewish Australians in the Bondi terror attack. If the comment was heard in isolation and interpreted in this manner, it would reasonably be considered inaccurate and offensive. However, on review of the program, the comment referred to the two gunmen and was implying that the attack was not motivated by their religion, being Islam, but instead the perversion of religion as exercised by radical extremists, in this instance with links to the terrorist organisation ISIS.
The Ombudsman considers this perspective could have been made more carefully with less certainty about the supposed motivations of the terrorists. On balance however, the regular audience of Politics Now, when listening to the episode in full, would have understood the comments to have made a distinction between the Islamic religion broadly and radicalisation and extremism.
Ombudsman’s Finding
The program did not breach the ABC’s impartiality standards.
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Somehow this flew under the radar in relation to the Bondi Attack.
Governmental/authoritarian over reach.
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The Chabad of Bondi will hold a memorial service at 7pm AEDT, which will be available to watch via a live stream and on Sky News.
The ABC will observe a minute of silence on its television and radio broadcasts at 7.01pm AEDT.
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Other networks plans:
There’s been a lot of ‘overreach’ in the aftermath of this sad affair. This is ridiculous!
Oldies gonna have a fright when Antiques Roadshow is interrupted in Queensland on ABC
9Go! will air a 2 hour program live
ABC will air 30 News across the network at 7pm AEDT
10 will have it online.
Live and free hey? Messy watching on 7plus
Not hard to get something like that right and that’s their sport bug. Bit insensitive.
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The 7+ extreme-right overlay appeared to be inserted over the regular sport bug.
Jessica van Vonderen did a presentation at 6pm (EPG still had Antiques Roadshow)
SBS in QLD went live too, as well as 10 with Sharyn Ghidella. A quick scan of radio here on the Sunshine Coast:
ABC Radio Brisbane, 4BC, 4BH, Radio National, Newsradio, Triple M, Nova, Sea FM, Mix FM, Sunshine FM yes.
B105, Kiss 97.3, Triple J No.
Choosing to keep the regular 9 watermark. Could have gone with 9News graphics recolored.
Took more than 40 seconds to bring down the ABC NC bug.
It was announced on ABC Sydney drive that there would be a special 7PM bulletin to facilitate the moment of silence.
Do we have caps of this?
SBS and NITV will observe the minute of silence at 7.01pm AEDT across national television and radio broadcasts, livestreamed via SBS On Demand and across multiple SBS Radio services.
Other SBS television channels will display on-screen notifications directing viewers to the main channel ahead of the commemoration.
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