Budget earmarks more than $600m for Bondi attack response, with half going to Australia’s Jewish community

Australia’s Jewish community will receive an extra $300m for security and support from the federal budget as part of a $604m package in response to December’s Bondi beach terror attack. 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. “Disclosure would prejudice the Commonwealth’s negotiations with jurisdictions on funding levels,” the budget reads. 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 . Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email “We’re also taking action to strengthen our national security and national unity since the devastating antisemitic terror attack at Bondi beach,” he said. Australia’s 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. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry , the national peak body, will receive $124m for extra security, $22m of which will be drawn from confiscated criminal assets. Projects run by Jewish community organisations will receive $131m, including $4.4m to the Chabad of Bondi, which lost longstanding members in December’s attack. …