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Police located several guns, a stockpile of ammunition and a shopping list for bomb materials in the home of a Western Australian man arrested after pledging support for the Bondi attackers, a court has heard.<\/p>\n
Martin Glynn, 39, appeared in a Perth court on Wednesday charged with racial harassment, possessing a prohibited weapon and failing to store firearms correctly.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege flags of Hamas and Hezbollah, both declared terrorist groups by Australia, were located during a police raid sparked by a tip-off from the public.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said “there is no place in Australia for antisemitism, hate and violent ideologies”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The court heard that Mr Glynn posted on Instagram just hours after two gunmen killed 15 people in a targeted attack on a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on 14 December to endorse their actions.<\/p>\n
“A community member saw a post from the man online, recognised it wasn’t right, and reported it to police,” acting Western Australia premier Rita Saffioti told reporters on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n
Police subsequently searched Mr Glynn’s home in Yangebup, a suburb of Perth, allegedly finding a notebook including antisemitic comments and references to Nazi ideology.<\/p>\n
Three flags, six rifles and around <\/b>4,000 rounds of ammunition were also seized, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n
There is “nothing illegal or improper” with supporting the Palestinian cause, Magistrate Benjamin Tyers told the court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“What is not proper is posting online comments supporting a massacre of innocent civilians,” he said, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\n
In court, Mr Glynn, who represented himself, said he had been “opinionated” about the war in Gaza, but was “hoping to raise the hypocrisy” by creating the Instagram post.<\/p>\n
He said he was a doomsday prepper, and that the alleged “bomb-making material” was actually fire-starting material.<\/p>\n
“I don’t intended to harm anyone,” he said.<\/p>\n
Western Australia Police Commissioner Col Blanch told media it is early days in their investigation, but there was no previous “record of concern for this individual”.<\/p>\n
Mr Glynn, a former mine worker, was denied bail and will face court again on 3 February.<\/p>\n
His arrest comes as the state of New South Wales passed new gun control laws after a marathon debate which ended at about 03:00 local time on Wednesday (16:00 GMT Tuesday).<\/p>\n
The new laws, drafted in response to the Bondi shootings, tightens regulations on who can own guns and gives police more powers to ban street protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n