Israel urged Australia to do more to halt an "epidemic of antisemitism" in the country as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government was doing all it could to combat attacks that he says include domestic terrorism.

Anthony Albanese has shut down reporters asking when he was briefed on an explosive-laden caravan involved in an alleged anti-Semitic terror plot in Sydney.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Jewish students in Sydney returned to school on Friday with a heightened security presence, days after police said they foiled a planned antisemitic attack in the city using a trailer filled with explosives.

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Jew-hatred in Australia has now turned into “more than a crisis” for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

The Prime Minister, Attorney-General and national security committee were all “out of the loop” and left in the dark over the alleged anti-Semitic caravan bomb plot by the AFP for ten days before the investigation was sensationally leaked to the media.

Israel has urged Australia to step up efforts against rising antisemitism as threatening acts increase in the country. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese asserts that measures are in place to tackle increasing domestic terrorism,

Sky News host Peta Credlin slams Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over his “woefully apathetic” condemnation of antisemitism in Australia.

It's the start of the election year Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers were banking on and the reason why talk of an early poll, either late last year or at the very start of this year, was always misguided.

Mr Albanese, who was touring the key outer eastern Melbourne electorate of Aston on Thursday, brushed aside questions relating to the event — which one guest described on social media as a “four hours of exquisite cuisine and hospitality — as “just a dinner”.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised $12.7 million for a theatre and arts centre in Launceston in the seat of Bass, $5 million for Nowra housing projects in Gilmore and $6 million for the “living city” project in Devonport, in the marginal seat of Braddon.

Australian leaders have been commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps but the political attacks continue.

Antisemitism is not new in Australia, but the current wave has left the Jewish community more fearful than before.