Businesses, homes and synagogues have been defaced with graffiti and set alight, in a series of attacks escalating in frequency and severity.

Australia is investigating whether local criminals were paid by foreign actors to carry out a spate of anti-Semitic attacks, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has visited a daycare centre that was firebombed and scrawled with graffiti in the latest suspected anti-Semitic attack in Sydney.

A Sydney, Australia childcare center was set on fire and vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti on Tuesday morning, in the second such incident in four days. The attack took place around 1:00am local time in the city's east, near a Jewish school and synagogue.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has held a meeting of state and territory leaders to tackle a wave of antisemitic attacks across the country, the latest involving the suspected firebombing of a childcare center in Sydney.

A childcare center in Sydney was set alight on Tuesday (January 21) early morning and antisemitic graffiti was sprayed on the wall, authorities said, the latest in a spate of attacks in Australia targeting Jews.

A childcare centre at Maroubra in Sydney's south-east has been set alight and spray painted with anti-Semitic graffiti. The building is a short distance away from the Maroubra Synagogue on Anzac Parade.

Forensic teams are investigating the scene of a suspected antisemitic attack at a daycare centre in Sydney. Emergency services were called to the facility in Maroubra after receiving reports of a fire.