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.

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.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will address the media in Melbourne from 9am. The Labor leader will visit Swinburne TAFE alongside Skills and Training Minister Andrew Giles. He is set to be grilled on when he knew about the Sydney caravan bomb, after a report on Friday confirmed he had been kept in the dark.

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.

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”.

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

PRIME MINISTER: I have not said that. I have said that I do not comment. I can't be clearer. I can say, I can say it the same way, you know, that I said yesterday. I'll say the same thing tomorrow. I do not talk about operational matters for an ongoing investigation.

New laws requiring employers to commit to achieve or make progress on gender equality targets could be passed when federal parliament returns for its first sitting week of the year.

A caravan packed with explosives is the means. A note in the vehicle with Jewish addresses including a synagogue is the motive. Taken together these facts tell me that there is a growing risk of a mass casualty attack in Australia,