“When the French people left the stadium after that shocking attack they were not cowered”.
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A spokesperson for New South Wales Premier Mike Baird said he disagreed with the comments, and they have also been condemned by the NSW Greens.
“Our hearts break with yours, Paris”, he tweeted.
There are at least 2500 Australians who are known to be in France at the moment, but Ms Bishop said that number was nearly certainly higher. “It is important that the regime and opposition groups and their supporters work to implement these commitments in good faith”, Ms Bishop said.
Mr Shorten said Mr Abbott’s 26 to 28 per cent cuts on year 2005 emissions by 2030 were manifestly inadequate and showed Australia even under Mr Turnbull’s stewardship, was determined to bring up the rear rather than lead the worldwide effort to limit global warming to 2 degrees maximum, this century.
“We simply can’t afford Malcolm Turnbull to be Tony Abbott in drag when it comes to taking action on climate change”, he said.
“While there have been a few exceptions, the history of terrorist activities in Australia and people of concern in this area is very much for the most part second and third-generation Australians”.
“I personally put a tremendous amount of importance in our relationship between Japan and Australia”, the Japanese prime minister said.
Australian travellers in Paris have been advised to heed the advice of French authorities and remain indoors and wait out the situation.
Expat Aussie healthcare worker Emma Pike had just returned from watching the new James Bond film and was unaware of the drama unfolding just 500m from the front door to her apartment block in Voltaire in the city’s 11th arrondissement. “Why am I up here dancing and having fun when people are crying over the loss of their loved ones?”
“I can’t imagine I will be sleeping a lot tonight”. We are a united nation.
Turnbull said he spoke to Parkinson after she had undergone surgery in a Paris hospital.
“We are going to have an orderly process, I think rightly assisting people who have been affected by the humanitarian disaster that is Syria and the people who do come to Australia will be thoroughly vetted and scrutinised by our agencies to ensure we wouldn’t let anyone into Australia who would pose a threat”, he said.
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France’s Jewish community was among the targets of the last attacks Paris in January and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added his voice to the condemnation.
