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Garbage<\/a>\u00a0have responded to the shooting at a Hanukkah party on Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach, saying\u00a0we \u201csimply can\u2019t go on hurting one another like this\u201d.<\/p>\n On Sunday (December 14),\u00a0at least\u00a012 people died, including one\u00a0gunman, and 29 others were taken to hospital, in what has been declared a terror attack at the Australian resort.<\/p>\n More than 1000 people were attending an event celebrating the first day of the Jewish festival Hanukkah on the beach, and the incident has been described by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as \u201can evil act of anti-Semitism\u201d.<\/p>\n Garbage\u00a0are\u00a0currently on a tour around Australia, and they played at the iconic Sydney Opera House just hours after the attack on Sunday, where they paid tribute to victims of the tragedy during the introduction to \u2018Queer\u2019.<\/p>\n Singer\u00a0Shirley Manson<\/a>\u00a0addressed the crowd:\u00a0\u201cThis has become an astoundingly frightening, violent, hateful, intolerant world, and I think the only thing we can do really, as people who do not believe in all this separation and all this intolerance, all we can really do is\u00a0really\u00a0try and profess our love for one another,\u201d she said, to rousing applause.<\/p>\n Watch her speech here:<\/p>\n\n \u201cWe have been a band that have always believed that we are one people under one sun,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what god you worship, what colour of your skin, what your gender is, what your sexual orientation is, what food you like to eat, what clothes you like to wear, how you like to hang your junk, whether you like to wear a bra or not wear a bra.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou get my point, it\u2019s all so fucking stupid, we have people in power telling us to really hate one another, to destroy one another.\u201d<\/p>\n With that, someone from the crowd shouted, \u201cFree Palestine\u201d,\u00a0to which Manson responded: \u201cOf course. Free fucking Palestine too. Everybody deserves to live a life of love and have their\u00a0children be\u00a0safe. And\u00a0so\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0sorry to bring things down, but I really thought it was important to mention what happened today.\u201d<\/p>\n Garbage\u00a0also\u00a0took to Instagram\u00a0on Sunday\u00a0to decry the \u201cvile\u201d attack, sharing that \u201csix of our own, beloved and close family members were at Bondi Beach just a few hours before this horrendous incident took place\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n The band\u2019s\u00a0Instagram\u00a0post read: \u201cWhat kind of world\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0living in right now?\u00a0Innocent people were targeted while celebrating life and faith. This should never happen to anyone, anywhere. My heart is with the Jewish community in Bondi, with the victims, the injured, and the families whose lives are forever changed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is what we stand against,\u201d they added. \u201cHatred. Racism. Division. Violence in all its forms. There is no place for hate or brutality in our society. We must not allow this horror to be used to divide us. Let it remind us to stand closer and tighter with each other, with love, shared feeling, shared humanity, and for each other.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you are able to donate blood in Sydney, please\u00a0do,\u201d it concluded. \u201cLives depend on it.\u201d<\/p>\n The post\u2019s caption went further,\u00a0stating: \u201cFuck all this vile antisemitism. Fuck Islamophobia. The killing\u00a0has to\u00a0stop. It is insane and wildly cruel. We\u00a0have to\u00a0find a way forward. We simply\u00a0can\u2019t\u00a0go on hurting one another like this.\u201d<\/p>\n The New South Wales premier Chris Minns said that individuals began firing on a \u201ccrowded group of families\u201d at about 6:47pm, describing the attack as a \u201ccowardly act of terrifying violence\u201d that \u201crepresents\u00a0some of our worst fears about terrorism in Sydney\u201d.<\/p>\n In other news,\u00a0Manson went on a rant about fans throwing beach balls in the crowd<\/a>\u00a0during their show at\u00a0Melbourne\u2019s Good Things Festival last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Watch Garbage\u2019s Shirley Manson address Bondi Beach shooting on stage at Sydney Opera House: \u201cAll we can do is\u00a0try and profess our love for one another\u201d<\/a> appeared first on NME<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Garbage\u00a0have responded to the shooting at a Hanukkah party on Sydney\u2019s Bondi Beach, saying\u00a0we \u201csimply can\u2019t go on hurting one another like this\u201d. READ MORE:\u00a0Garbage\u2019s Shirley Manson: \u201cI don\u2019t have to be young, I don\u2019t have to be sexy \u2013 if you cancel me, you cancel me\u201d On Sunday (December 14),\u00a0at least\u00a012 people died, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-art"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 20:46:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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