{"id":666403,"date":"2026-05-12T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666403\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T17:05:14","slug":"budget-earmarks-more-than-600m-for-bondi-attack-response-with-half-going-to-australias-jewish-community-australian-budget-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/666403\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget earmarks more than $600m for Bondi attack response, with half going to Australia\u2019s Jewish community | Australian budget 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s Jewish community will receive an extra $300m for security and support from the federal budget<\/a> as part of a $604m package in response to December\u2019s Bondi beach terror attack.<\/p>\n

The government has also set aside federal cash for its proposed national gun buyback but would not say how much, as it struggles to bring state governments on board.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisclosure would prejudice the Commonwealth\u2019s negotiations with jurisdictions on funding levels,\u201d the budget reads.<\/p>\n

The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, singled out gun reform hopes in his budget speech on Tuesday night, saying the government was adopting all the recommendations of the antisemitism royal commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re also taking action to strengthen our national security and national unity since the devastating antisemitic terror attack at Bondi<\/a> beach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s Jewish community and those directly affected by the Bondi attack will receive about half of the $604m in new budget measures over five years from 2025-26.<\/p>\n

The Executive Council of Australian Jewry<\/a>, the national peak body, will receive $124m for extra security, $22m of which will be drawn from confiscated criminal assets.<\/p>\n

Projects run by Jewish community organisations will receive $131m, including $4.4m to the Chabad of Bondi, which lost longstanding members in December\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n

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Charities Jewish House and Jewishcare will get a combined $4m to support the victims of the shooting and their families, and another two relief organisations will be permitted to apply for charity status.<\/p>\n

The government has also committed $43m toward mental health support for those affected by the shooting and $200,000 to Bondi\u2019s surf lifesaving clubs, whose members came to the aid of victims.<\/p>\n

Lewis\u2019 Continental Kitchen, which burned down in 2024, will be handed $500,000 to help its recovery. The Bondi kosher catering business, founded in 1970, has not reopened since the alleged arson, spending months campaigning for government aid.<\/p>\n

The royal commission, which has released its interim report and is now holding public hearings, has been costed at $131m, with the remaining $207m to be spent on measures to counter antisemitism and hate.<\/p>\n

New funding has been allocated to public awareness campaigns and education department programs for social cohesion, while the government will set up an $80m counter-terrorism online centre to combat youth radicalisation.<\/p>\n

The office of the e-safety commissioner, which pioneered the teenage social media ban, will get $1m to provide online safety advice addressing antisemitism. Jewish Australians have told the royal commission they have faced hate across the internet, from social media to Minecraft.<\/p>\n

Security agencies have been funded to bring in controls on firearms and visas, while Australian federal police receive $68m to help their teams investigate the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Jewish community will receive an extra $300m for security and support from the federal budget as part…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-666403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}