Liz Truss goes to Canberra, courtesy of Peter Dutton

MRC won’t reveal the venue until the day before, giving proceedings a splendid 1990s rave culture throwback feel.

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We can confirm Truss likes a dance. CBD wrote a few years ago how she was spotted at a party hosted by LGBT+ Conservatives along with George Brandis, who was Australian high commissioner to Britain at the time but is now a columnist for this newspaper.

THANKS, DAD

The first anniversary of the October 7 massacres is understandably a fraught time for Australia’s Jewish community.

But much angst has been directed towards political leaders aiming to attend a community commemorative event organised for Monday.

Some Jewish community members are outraged that Zionism Victoria, which is organising the biggest community event, had invited political leaders including foreign minister Penny Wong to its event in Melbourne on Monday evening. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is also due to attend, as well as Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and state opposition leader John Pesutto.

A message circulated widely on WhatsApps urged people to protest. “Let’s make the change we need now, starting with letting PM Albanese and FM Wong know they are not welcome to mourn next to us,” the message read.

Descriptors such as “the community has gone mental” and “we don’t want to see her” and “breakaway event” circulated as the Jewish community celebrated the Jewish New Year holiday of Rosh Hashanah.

Meanwhile, Dutton is attending an event in Sydney and Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles will be in Canberra at the Israeli embassy.

There, Albanese and Wong will face lawyer Mark Leibler, who criticised the government’s foreign policy in a tough but nuanced piece in The Australian.

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Heightening tensions was a column in The Australian based on a speech by former Liberal federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg which accused the Albanese government of “abandoning Israel”. Some readers assumed Frydenberg would deliver his speech in front of Albanese and Wong, but he is speaking at a separate event.

Jeremy Leibler, the president of the Zionist Federation of Australia and Mark Leibler’s son, said the community event would allow “the Jewish community and friends and allies including political leaders on both sides to commemorate the largest loss of Jewish life on any single day since the Holocaust” and “send messages of support and solidarity to the people of Israel as they continue to face existential threats on multiple fronts”.

In a bid to quell tensions, no Australian politician will give speeches at the Melbourne event.

That is unlikely to satisfy dissidents, who in their “Urgent Action Needed” WhatsApp message were so angered by circumstances that they managed to misspell the prime minister’s name.

SITUATION VACANT

“Be part of history.” That’s the enticement from the Royal Australian Navy as it starts recruiting officers for its AUKUS nuclear submarine fleet.

Ads for the jobs, which will pay more than $100,000 and are based in Darwin and Melbourne, state that a typical day could see successful candidates in charge of “nuclear reactor and nuclear propulsion system operations” and “onboard weapons systems management”.

“You’ll enjoy a competitive salary package, career stability, opportunities for continuous progression and an adventurous lifestyle, all while making a difference to Australia,” the navy promises, adding recruits will be “paid from day one to gain all the skills needed with extensive on-the-job training”.

Which comes as a relief, given the navy is advertising the jobs on LinkedIn as “Nuclear Submarine Officer – No Experience”.

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