Nearly six months after the deadly December 14 terror attack at Bondi Beach that claimed 15 lives, most of them Jewish, the Albanese government has formally detailed a $604.2 million multi-year funding package in its 2026-27 federal budget, released on Tuesday, to boost Jewish community security, expand national counter-terrorism capacity, and combat rising anti-Semitism across Australia. The five-year allocation, which includes $8.1 million in permanent annual funding after the initial period, will be distributed across dozens of key stakeholders, from peak Jewish representative bodies and educational institutions to counter-terrorism police units and regulatory agencies. More than $120 million of the total package will be allocated over four years to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry to upgrade community-wide security infrastructure, with $22 million of that sum drawn from the Confiscated Assets Account established under the Proceeds of Crime Act over three years. An additional $46.7 million over the same four-year period will go toward upgrades for major Jewish communal and cultural sites, including the Hakoah Club and the National Jewish Memorial Centre, as well as a targeted non-competitive grant program for local projects led by Chabad of Bondi. Roughly $5 million in targeted support is earmarked for affected stakeholders including Lewis’ Continental Kitchen, a Jewish business that was firebombed in a separate earlier attack, Jewish youth camps across the state of Victoria, and directly impacted survivors and families of victims of the Bondi Beach attack. A further $42.9 million allocated over two years will fund immediate and accessible mental health support services for community members affected by the attack and rising hate violence. Ahead of the federal budget announcement, the government already revealed an $80 million two-year investment to establish a new national counter-terrorism center dedicated to addressing the growing crisis of online radicalization among young Australians. When combined with new allocations in the 2026-27 budget, total spending targeting anti-Semitism and violent extremism in this fiscal cycle tops $207 million. This allocation includes almost $70 million for the Australian Federal Police’s National Security Investigations teams, as well as sustained funding for cross-agency initiatives: a teacher resource hub managed by the Department of Education, and a hate group monitoring framework developed by the Department of Home Affairs. Another $32.6 million in 2026-27 will fund national public awareness campaigns designed to strengthen national security and reinforce social cohesion across diverse Australian communities. The long-running Together for Humanity interfaith education program will also receive a $20 million four-year investment to extend and expand its reach, while public broadcaster SBS will get $3 million over three years to continue its *SBS Examines* podcast series focused on hate and extremism. The newly launched Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion, which held its first public hearings last week, will also receive sustained resourcing, with more than $131 million allocated to the Attorney-General’s Department from the 2025-26 fiscal cycle to support the commission’s work. The budget also confirms continued funding for national firearms licensing reforms, though the government has declined to disclose the specific total amount, stating that public release would prejudice ongoing negotiations with state and territory jurisdictions over funding levels. In addition, the budget sets aside a contingency reserve for the stalled National Gun Buyback Scheme, which has faced significant delays and pushback from multiple state and territory governments since it was proposed. The scheme has already received partial funding, and the new contingency allocation aims to support its implementation moving forward.