Anthony Albanese is actually showing some spine here and is essentially saying that the Coalition is deliberately not receiving a security briefing on this AFP investigation because then it would all the information and probably couldn’t politicise it. (But he says it in much more political terms)

Albanese:

“I would have thought on this issue, it is pretty handy to find out the facts, it is pretty handy to get a response because the issue here – you know what the Australian people want to know – they want to know who is behind this. They want to know who is engaged in anti-Semitic attacks. They want to know who, if people have been paid, they want to know where that trail leads. They want intelligence agencies to be able to do that work without political interference and without political games. That is what they want here. The priority of those opposite is to play political games.

I engage regularly with leaders in the Jewish community and what they are interested in, is keeping their community safe and you know what, that is what my priority is too.

The way you keep them safe is by having confidence in our national security agencies, making sure that they can engage in the sort of intelligence, if you look at the people who have been in custody, if you then look for what is behind that? Surely, the idea that that is where it stops is quite frankly not the case. The police have continued to be responsible for what is made public and I will let them to do their job and you know what, I will back them doing it, unlike those opposite who just want to play politics”.