The Bondi massacre interim report is out. Don't mention the G word

Michael West Media · Stephanie Tran and Kim Wingerei · Thursday 30 April 2026

The Bondi massacre interim report is out. Don't mention the G word

The Royal Commission's interim report lands with recommendations in hand and 'social cohesion' deferred to a later instalment — the chapter where the actual question gets postponed.

An interim report that won't say the word the headline writers won't say either. Three hundred pages of recommendations and the hard question — 'social cohesion' — saved for the sequel. Fitzgerald named the coppers. Costigan named the dockers. This commission's mastered the art of the noun-free inquiry.

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