Opposition leader Sussan Ley addresses her fiery ‘personal attack’ on Penny Wong over response to Bondi Beach massacre

Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has defended herself amid criticism following her fiery spray at the Labor Party - particularly Foreign Minister Penny Wong - following the Bondi terror attack.

Ley slammed her hands down on a lectern on Monday and loudly fumed at Wong’s lack of public tears about the devastating massacre.

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“I haven’t seen Penny Wong shed a single tear,” she said.

Ley defended her anger in an interview with Sunrise co-host David Woiwood on Tuesday, when he asked her about what seemed to be a “personal attack” on Wong.

“Ultimately, do you think that Australians want a competition between our leaders on who cried the hardest? Don’t they want a bit of cooperation here? A bit of unity?” Woiwood said.

Ley doubled down on the comments, telling Woiwood: “I’ve cried at homes, in synagogues, in the street, at the vigil.”

She said she was “expressing my anger and disappointment on behalf on the community to the government.”

“I am angry that they have failed this community.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese avoided speaking publicly at the Bondi Beach vigil where he was booed by crowds, and was not invited to some victim’s funerals as Ley and other leaders, including NSW Premier Chris Minns, were.

But Ley, who is leading the new taskforce on antisemitism, extremism and counter-terrorism, urged Albanese to “look past the jeers”.

She urged the Prime Minister to “put aside his pride and take action”.

She said a federal royal commission is the “one thing” that will “start the healing journey” for the Jewish Australian community.

“What is the Prime Minister hiding?” Ley asked.

“I back our intelligence agencies every single day, but I’m not sure they have the resources that they need to properly do their job.”

Albanese has dismissed a federal royal commission, despite mounting calls for one, but insists the federal government would fully support a NSW royal commission.

Minns said on Monday said the NSW royal commission would be able to inquire into the roles of federal law enforcement agencies ASIO and the AFP.

This comes in addition to a raft of newly proposed federal legislation, and the Richardson Review into whether federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies currently have the right powers, structures, processes and sharing arrangements in place to keep Australians safe.

Albanese said the Review will be finished before April and can be used to inform the NSW inquiry, which is likely to take years, as would a federal royal commission.

“Every royal commission has asked for an extension of time,” he said at a press conference on Monday.

“The idea that we would have multiple royal commissions, as well as a review running at the same time is going to simply delay action.

“What we need to do is to work immediately.

“We want urgency and unity, not division and delay.”

As Albanese insists on making changes efficiently, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Robert French said a federal royal commission would be a most “effective” way to “meet the moral imperative”.

French said a national inquiry would “enliven statutory powers in the various jurisdictions and require a report to each Australian government.”

“The events at Bondi Beach require a whole of Australia response which transcends politics.”