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A powerful government-backed inquiry in Australia, which can compel people to give evidence, has started its investigation into antisemitism following the Bondi Beach shooting that killed 15 people.

In her opening remarks on Tuesday at the first public hearing of the royal commission into antisemitism, commissioner Virginia Bell said she saw the inquiry as the "starting point to strengthening our bonds of social cohesion".

The commission will investigate the extent and unde

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