The cabinet meeting, during which leaders agreed to a new national database that would track antisemitic crimes, came after a childcare centre in Sydney’s Maroubra was set alight and sprayed with antisemitic graffiti.

Repeating his calls for unity, Albanese said: “What we need to do is to bring the country together, not look for difference, not look for division, not look for political advantage. We need to bring the country together because we are overwhelmingly a harmonious society.”

Kershaw revealed on Tuesday that Operation Avalite is investigating 15 serious allegations and had received 166 crime reports.

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Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke rejected the criticism as “simply not right” and defended the government’s actions, including the appointment of antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal.