Frydenberg claims Albanese should accept ‘personal responsibility’ for Bondi attacks in escalation of rhetoric

Josh Frydenberg has claimed Anthony Albanese has ‘failed’ Australia’s Jewish community over the Bondi beach terror attack. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Former Liberal treasurer Josh Frydenberg has claimed Anthony Albanese is personally responsible for the 15 deaths in the Bondi terror attack, as the prime minister lays the blame on “perverse ideology, a terrorist ideology”.

The comments were part of an extraordinary escalation of political rhetoric on Wednesday as the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, said his government would consider new restrictions on protests that he said “would rip apart our community”.