It’s been six days since 15 people went to a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi and ended up as names on coffins. A 10-year-old girl who should have been arguing about bedtime. A Holocaust survivor who thought extermination had finally let him go. Rabbis who spent their lives building community. Just a few of the innocent souls taken.

And now, the PM tells us we have to “move forward”.

This isn’t a chapter you turn. This is a scar.

Yes, the PM announced reform: hate speech laws, more penalties, visa powers, task forces. Fine. Necessary. Long overdue. But here’s the truth that burns: this is what Jewish Australians were begging for before Bondi turned into a memorial.

When the PM admits more could have been done, I feel nauseated. Because “more could have been done” is what you say after the fact, when the doing now can’t bring back the dead.

“This isn’t a chapter you turn. This is a scar.

In Melbourne and Sydney, weekly rallies functioned as public indictments of Jews. Anyone who supported Israel’s right to exist, who identified as a Zionist, was branded a genocidal baby killer, a Nazi, a war criminal. People chanted “globalise the intifada” and were treated as activists.

Then add the other failure, the one people keep trying to tiptoe around – Islamic hate preachers who have been allowed to operate, to groom, to radicalise, to inject anti-Semitism into minds like a toxin, and to wrap it in religious language so that calling it out feels “controversial”.

For two years, we warned state and federal governments the rhetoric was getting colder, louder and more explicit. We said it would end in blood.

We were ignored. It was like the main danger was saying the wrong thing about it.

The federal government was not short of advice. Jillian Segal delivered a clear plan. Months passed. The plan sat.

And now we are being asked to applaud reforms as if the moment for action is the moment after a funeral. No. Not like that.

There must be a royal commission. Fifteen dead demands more than promises. We need answers under oath. We need to know how warnings were missed, why incitement went unpunished, how radicalisation took root, and how men who set out to murder Jews acquired the means to do it.

The PM and his government have soul-searching to do. Either it uses every resource to stop this madness, or Jewish bodies lying lifeless on public ground will be the new normal.