The Nightly Live: Albanese visits synagogue, Hadley’s replacement, Luigi Mangione charged, Jay-Z on red carpet

Courting Labor faithful and playing tennis.

Pictures emerged of the prime minister playing tennis at Cottesloe Tennis Club, in one of Perth’s ritziest suburbs, on Saturday afternoon, the day after the arson attack of the Ripponlea synagogue on Friday.

The Australian published the pictures a day after the firebombing showing Mr Albanese at ease even as his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Labor for the rise in anti-Semitism in Australia.

It also came after Mr Albanese attended a $1000-a-head Labor Party fundraiser on Friday night at Chevron’s headquarter’s in Perth with business heavyweights.

Here’s what else Albo was doing in WA.

Shadow home affairs minister James Paterson has called out Anthony Albanese and senior Labor ministers for not visiting the Adass Israel Synagogue after it was firebombed on Friday morning.

Senator Paterson says the Adass Israel community, were “disappointed” more political leaders had not visited the scene themselves.

Appearing on ABC News Breakfast, he said the “moral clarity of calling out this cancer of anti-semitism” had been missing in the days since the attack.

“We’re now five days from this happening and the prime minister hasn’t attended, nor as any senior minister of the government,” Mr Paterson told ABC News Breakfast.

“That’s an important show of solidarity and it’s reflective of the government’s priorities the prime minister has chosen to do other things, rather than do this.”

Politicians doing the breakfast television rounds have responded to Peter Dutton’s claims that he won’t display the Aboriginal flag at press conferences if elected prime minister.

Labor’s minister for social services Amanda Rishworth, appearing on the Today Show, said it was a blatant attempt by the opposition leader to “create a headline”.

“I think we can take a lot of pride in our history and the future of this country,” Ms Rishworth said.

“I think this is Peter Dutton just doing what he knows how to do best – try and get a headline with no substance, no real policies about, for example, tackling cost of living or things that really matter to the Australian people.”

But Nationals MP Bridget McKenzie, appearing alongside Ms Rishworth, backed the move to “restore the primacy of the Australian flag”.

“That in no way denigrates the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, but (the flag) is the one thing that does unite us, our common future, despite our different pasts” she said.

“So I’m excited to be part of a future Dutton government if we get that great privilege, and to restore the primacy of the Australian flag.”

One of the world’s most prominent Jewish human rights organisations is preparing to issue a global warning against travel to Australia following an arson terror attack on a synagogue.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre in the US is known for its Jewish human rights activism, holocaust research, hunting nazi war criminals and tolerance education.

Following the arson terror attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue at Ripponlea in Melbourne, the organisation posted to social media to condemn the incident and call on Australian authorities to hold the perpetrators accountable.

The group is expected to warn its international Jewish community against travel to Australia.

Get the details.

Dramatic vision captures the launch of a long-range missile capable of travelling almost 20 times further than other weapons in Australia’s arsenal.

Australian warship, the HMAS Brisbane, has test-fired a Tomahawk missile off the US west coast in a “historic advancement” that increases the strike range to 2500km - the same distance as Melbourne to Townsville.

The ageing Harpoon anti-ship missile has a range of just 124km.

Tomahawk missiles are used to attack land targets and can take out critical infrastructure including airfields and runways.

Australia is one of three nations alongside the US and UK to acquire and fire the missiles, following launches of the naval strike missile and standard missile.

The navy will acquire more than 200 Tomahawk missiles at a cost of $1.3 billion and be fitted to three Hobart class destroyer ships and future Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines to be delivered under AUKUS.

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Riot police were sent to Rottnest Island at the weekend to restore order after a group of about 400 school leavers allegedly caused chaos on the WA tourist spot.

Police received multiple complaints on Friday evening about a large number of youths behaving disorderly between Longreach and The Basin on the holiday island.

In what police described as an “out of control gathering”, some youths allegedly assaulted tourists and threw bottles at responding officers.

Police say the high schoolers, some as young as 13, were on the island for “junior leavers” week - an event for Year 11 students and below to celebrate the end of the school year.

Additional resources were deployed to the island - inlcluding 18 specifically trained tactical officers that travelled by boat and air wing - and order had been restored over the weekend, with large groups moved on from the beach.

Superintendent Dave Dench said a number of juveniles were taken into protective custody because some of them “didn’t have responsible adults that were even on Rottnest Island”.

Brace yourselves for the final interest rates decision of 2024, coming this afternoon after the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy meeting.

The RBA is expected to leave the cash rate on hold at 4.35 per cent, where it has sat for the past year as Australians continue to grapple with the cost of living crisis.

The prediction comes despite fresh data showing Australia’s economy grew just 0.8 per cent through the year to September — close to the slowest rate in decades, outside the COVID pandemic.

Weaker economic activity generally eases inflation pressure and leads to rising job losses, which would push the RBA to drop interest rates to ease pain.

Get the full analysis here. And keep your eyes peeled for the update around lunchtime AEST today.

A trio wanted over the likely terror attack on a synagogue while people were inside remain on the run.

The Joint Counter Terror Team (JCTT) is now in charge of the investigation into Friday’s arson at the Adass Israel Synagogue at Ripponlea in Melbourne’s southeast.

Authorities declared the fire a likely terror attack on Monday and confirmed investigators were looking for three suspects, but would not give details on who the attackers might be and whether they were known to police.

Monday’s terror declaration opens up a raft of extra powers for investigators including the ability to stop, search and seize people without a warrant as well as detain and question those they believe have knowledge of, or links to, the attack.

The JCTT is made up of state and federal police and ASIO officers.

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Opposition leader Peter Dutton has made a bold promise to only display the Australian flag at press conferences if he is elected prime minister.

Speaking to Peta Credlin on Sky News last night, Mr Dutton said to fly the Aboriginal or Torres Strait flags was “dividing our country unnecessarily” when, he believes the country was “united under one flag”.

“If we’re asking people to identify with different flags... we are dividing our country unecessarily,” he said.

“I think the fact is that we should stand up for who we are, for our values as a country which is what we should do in Australia.”

Mr Dutton said Australians should “value and respect our heritage” and “speak a lot more about our migrant story” particularly of people who arrived after World War ll.

Former Labor leader Paul Keating was the first prime minister to recognise the Aboriginal flag as a national emblem in the 1990s, and it has been upheld as such by subsequent governments.

Police have named a person of interest over the New York City fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

After a days-long manhunt, New York City police commissioner Jessica Tisch identified 26-year-old Maryland man Luigi Mangione as “our person of interest in the brazen targeted murder”.

Ms Tisch said Mangione was recognised by an employee at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, who then called police.

He was carrying a gun and silencer consistent with those used by the gunman and a mask that matched the one worn by the person seen in CCTV of the murder.

He was also carrying a fraudulent New Jersey ID matching that used to check into the New York City hostel before the shooting, and a handwritten document that “speaks to both his motivation and mindset”, Ms Tisch said.

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