Overview
- ASECA released its 'Priorities' roadmap on Oct. 29, 2026, and identified a socially framed, 'progressive' strain of antisemitism as the most pervasive current threat to Jewish Australians.
- The report asks Home Affairs to create a dedicated review group to recheck previously granted visas, add risk filters to new applications, and publish refusal and cancellation figures while noting the department has begun basic training for visa staff.
- It recommends new protest controls, including bans on face coverings and safe‑access or exclusion zones, citing recent state powers and court rulings as background for national rules to limit escalation.
- ASECA calls for external oversight of the ABC and SBS by moving serious complaints to an outside ombudsman and for conditionality on public funding, including powers to withhold or strip grants from organisations that engage in or tolerate antisemitism, plus a trial grant program to re‑engage Jewish artists.
- The report highlights a febrile online environment that surged after the Oct. 7 attacks and the Bondi terror attack, explains how online abuse, exclusion and doxxing harm Jewish Australians, and warns its proposals are likely to prompt legal and free‑speech debates ahead of the royal commission’s final report on Dec. 18.