Dear Mr Albanese,

On behalf of the Australian community – both Jewish and non-Jewish, united by grief at the unfathomable horrors that occurred at Bondi Beach on 14th December, 2025 – we urgently implore you to immediately adopt the eight meausures clearly and concisely outlined by former Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, to curb the rise of antisemitism in Australia that has led to the cold-blooded massacre of fifteen innocent Jewish Australians on your watch, the worst in Australia’s history.

These measures are as follows:

1) Ban the hate preachers. 
On October 8, in Lakemba ... you had Islamic preachers say that October 7 [Hamas attack] was an act of courage and pride. When the Muslim community hears that message for the last 2½ years, is this any surprise? The shooter here, who did this, was linked to a factory of hate in Bankstown. How can that factory of hate be allowed to open its doors for one day more? I say no, I say never.

2) Ban these extremist organisations that have been allowed to flourish on your watch in our country. Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in the United Kingdom. It is banned in Germany. It is banned in moderate Muslim states. Yet it is not banned here in Australia.

3) Prosecute those who incite violence and hate that has produced this. 
Dennis Richardson, one of Australia’s most distinguished security professionals, the former head of ASIO, the former secretary of defence, the former secretary of foreign affairs, the former Australian ambassador to the United States said that the statement “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” was a very violent statement that had no place on our streets. You agreed. You said it had no place on our streets. Yet people are allowed to parade on our streets with Hezbollah, Hamas, ISIS flags and signs that say “Jews are Nazis”, “Zionists are terrorists”, where are the prosecutions? Where is the action? Prime Minister, what other country in the world are people in your country allowed to call for the abolition of? No other country, except the state of Israel.

4) Stop the protests. 
For 2 ½ years, we have put up with daily protests which have become incubators of hate. There is a ceasefire in the Middle East. Israel launched a defensive action against a listed terrorist organisation that took more than 1200 innocent lives and hundreds of Israelis hostage. And you have allowed these protests, unabated, to go on for 2½ years, destroying businesses and now destroying lives. Stop the protests!

5) Invest in education. 
Julia Gillard said one of the reasons for the level of hate rising in our country is because young people don’t have the information, the understanding. The knowledge of either the history of the Holocaust or the history of the Middle East. Across Australia, there is some Holocaust education but it is piecemeal. It is uncoordinated and it is different according to different states. The history of the Holocaust is that bad things happen when good people stay silent. So it’s up to you – not to sprinkle a bit of money around Holocaust education after a horrific terrorist attack but to take the initiative now, with whole-scale, wholesale, wide-scale reform to our education system. Teach Australian values of tolerance, respect. This was an attack on Australia and this needs root-and-branch change of our education system so that this never happens again.

6) Put in place a much more effective and rigorous and strong immigration system. 
On your watch, thousands of people have come from a terrorist hot spot without sufficient security checks. How is that in Australia’s national interest? How is bringing people to this country who don’t accept, who don’t know our democratic ideals, our values of tolerance, how does that makes any of us, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, safer? It doesn’t. Until you change our immigration system to remind people it is a privilege to come to this country, it is a privilege to stay in this country, it is not their right, then nothing will change. 

7) Adopt the recommendations provided by Ms Jillian Segal AO on combatting antisemitism in Australia.
You hand-picked a special envoy on antisemitism. She put together a comprehensive program that had initiatives for everything from the digital and media space to our universities and to our creative arts, to hard security, to soft security. She talks in that report about more resources for operational security. And today, we are talking about a graphic and tragic failure of operational security. Yet she presented her report to your government more than 150 days ago, in July of this year. It has been gathering dust on your desk. If there were ever a metaphor, if there was ever a sign, if there was ever an example, if there was ever an illustration of your failure, of your government’s failure to treat the dangerous rise of antisemitism with the urgency and the importance that it deserves, that was it. For 150-plus days you had a report and you did nothing. And this is the result.

8) Call a royal commission into what has happened here and into the rise of antisemitism in our country. 
You have supported a royal commission into our banks. You have supported a royal commission into our welfare system. You have supported a royal commission into aged care, and now the deadliest terrorist attack in Australia’s history has occurred on your watch. There is no ifs, there is no buts, there must be a royal commission called immediately. And we here deserve answers.

This is not a political statement. This is not about political rivals exercising contrarian positions. This is about pure and simple moral clarity – in spite of politics – to uphold your office and exercise your single binding responsibility to protect the safety and freedoms of ALL Australian citizens. 

There should be no greater, nor more urgent item on your agenda, than implementing these eight measures. Gun control is not the issue here; this is a matter of blind hatred being allowed to fester and flourish in your country, in our country, and remain unchecked. Until the above is adopted and swift, decisive action is taken to eradicate the cancer of hatred and antisemitism on our shores – you stand liable to empower history to repeat itself, over and over again, with potentially graver consequences.

We, the Australian public – bonded by our love of kin and county – urge you to take the stand that is necessary to protect the way of life we have all collectively toiled to establish and entrench. Such a response should not take courage nor compromise, for it is simply the decent and human response in the face of uncompromising evil.

What is done, is done. We cannot change the failures or missteps of the past, nor do we seek to. All we ask is that you heed the moment and take the necessary action outlined above to ensure that the horrors of the past week are never permitted to repeat.

With deep concern for the safety and future of our nation,

The United Citizens of Australia