11 Dec 2024

Australia: Synagogue firebombing, student exam leak

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 11 December 2024
Anthony Albanese has vowed to help rebuild the Adass Israel Synagogue.

Anthony Albanese has vowed to help rebuild the Adass Israel Synagogue. (Supplied: Prime Minister's Office) Photo: Supplied: Prime Minister's Office of Australia

Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst looks at the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue at the weekend which is being treated as an act of terrorism and has prompted criticism of the government's response.

Students in Victoria have been affected by a publishing error which saw a number of exams released online - now 69 students have been found to have anomalous results.

And a new study has found Australia is losing up to three native insects and invertebrates to extinction every week.

Annika Smethurst is political editor at The Age