31/12/2025
Statement – Labor Ministers should be blocked from Jewish events
We understand that senior Labor figures have privately expressed support for a Royal Commission but are not prepared to challenge Prime Minister Albanese publicly on this. That’s not good enough.
AJA CEO Robert Gregory said:
“The Albanese Government is showing profound disrespect to the families of those murdered at Bondi Beach and to the Jewish community more broadly by refusing to listen to repeated calls for a Royal Commission.
It’s encouraging to see the Jewish community united behind the call for a Royal Commission. However, until recently, many Jewish organisations still believed they could trust and work constructively with the Albanese Government.
The Australian Jewish Association is calling on Jewish organisations to seriously consider making it clear that federal Labor ministers will not be welcome at any Jewish venue or event unless they have publicly called for a Royal Commission into the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre. While this decision rests with individual organisations, Jewish museums, schools and communal institutions should not allow themselves to be used as photo opportunities by a government that that has failed to demonstrate it takes the safety and concerns of our community seriously.
Where organisations do continue to invite Labor ministers, the Jewish community should continue to express its views clearly, as it did at the Bondi Beach event attended by Prime Minister Albanese.
I believe a Royal Commission will ultimately be held into the failures surrounding the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre. By delaying this inevitable step, the Albanese Government is unnecessarily prolonging the suffering of victims’ families for no public benefit.”
