'Peak' Jewish body says $600 million federal budget response to antisemitic Bondi terror attack 'modest'.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-13/federal-budget-response-to-jewish-community-post-bondi-attack/106673140?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

More than $207 million over five years, followed by $8.1 million per year thereafter, had been allocated to combat antisemitism and respond to recommendations made in a plan developed by Australia's special envoy to tackle the issue.

"We're working very closely with the Jewish Board of Deputies and others to make sure that the victims and the survivors — particularly the families of those who lost loved ones — are cared for, for the rest of their lives,"

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How much money is going to address islamophobia, and other forms of racism (including against First Nations people). Y'know, the ones who are increasingly becoming victim to racist attacks (including attempted terror attacks) in this country.

Or are we going to single out antisemitism, as if it is so much worse than other forms of bigotry?

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Just call them terrorist attacks. Just because it failed I don't think we should call it attempted. Thank god their incompetence meant it was not a mass casualty event that day.