AFP investigating whether foreign actors paid local criminals cryptocurrency to carry out antisemitic attacks

State and territory leaders also agree to set up new database tracking antisemitic crime after national cabinet meeting

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Federal police are investigating whether overseas actors" are paying local criminals to carry out antisemitic attacks in Australia and whether children are being radicalised online after a wave of alleged hate crimes targeting Jewish communities.

National cabinet met on Tuesday for a snap meeting convened by Anthony Albanese after the latest attack, on a Sydney childcare centre. State and territory leaders agreed to set up a new national database tracking antisemitic crime, but there were no further new initiatives announced after the meeting despite Albanese pledging that the childcare arson attack will lead to action".

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