Australia PM: Bondi Beach shooting "motivated by Islamic State ideology"

• Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and two "homemade" ISIS flags were found in a car registered to suspect Naveed Akram, New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said at a Tuesday briefing.
• Investigators are examining why the 24-year-old and his 50-year-old father Sajid Akram traveled to the Philippines last month, per Lanyon.

Zoom in: Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that the younger man was investigated in 2019, but he was "not seen at that time to be a person of interest."

• He told ABC's Chris Taylor the focus of the investigation by Australia's spy agency, ASIO, was on others.
• "Now, whether he was radicalized further after that, what the circumstances are, that's the subject of further investigation," Albanese added.

Of note: Taylor asked Albanese whether he believed he'd "done enough to counteract antisemitism" in Australia. "We're doing what we can," Albanese replied.

• "It would appear that this was motivated by Islamic State ideology," he said. "The ideology that has been around for more than a decade that led to this ideology of hate, and in this case, a preparedness to engage in mass murder."
• Albanese said his government is "working as hard as we can" on combating antisemitism. "But antisemitism, of course, has been around for a very long period of time — that's the point," he added.

• "Islamic State is an ideology that, tragically, over the last decade, particularly since 2015, has led to a radicalization of some people to this extreme position, and it is a hateful action."

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Editor's note: This article has been updated with additional details, including comment from New South Wales Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon.