00:00Some really quite incredible scenes here at Bondi Beach this morning.
00:07Lifesavers from the North Bondi and the Bondi Surf Club joining together in uniform with lifeguards
00:14and they fanned out across the length of the whole of Bondi Bay
00:19and they then held hands and observed a two-minute silence in tribute to the 15 people
00:25who lost their lives in the terrorist attack here on Sunday.
00:29It was a chance to honour the victims, to show solidarity with the Jewish community
00:35but also a chance for surf lifesavers to come together.
00:38Many of them were first responders to the attack.
00:42People sought shelter in the surf clubhouses and were also treated there by the lifesavers
00:49who of course go through regular first aid training.
00:53I spoke to one of those who took part about what it had meant.
00:57It was quite healing and obviously listening to the waves and letting the events wash away in a way
01:03but standing shoulder to shoulder I think a lot of those first responders that were on the beach today
01:08like lifeguards and basically bridged the gap between ambulances coming in.
01:15Now also down here this morning was the Governor General Sam Molston
01:19and we also saw the MP for the neighbouring constituency Matt Thistlethwaite.
01:27He is a surf lifesaver himself from a neighbouring club so he was part of that tribute
01:33but he also came to tell the clubs that the federal government will give them $100,000 each
01:38to replenish the first aid supplies that were essentially gutted in the response to the attack.
01:45I put it to Matt Thistlethwaite that the federal opposition said that the federal government's response to the attack
01:54has been too little too late.
01:57I think that now is a time for us to show bipartisan shipment cooperation.
02:01I think the Australian people want us to come together, to unite, to support the Jewish community,
02:07to do what it takes to put in place measures to protect them and the wider Australian community into the future.
02:15Bondi very much in many ways returning to normal now
02:19and yet at the site of that makeshift memorial where people continue to lay flowers,
02:25the grief is still very much raw and there's a sense now of people gearing up towards a national day of reflection tomorrow.
02:33The focal point of that of course will be here at Bondi.
