Overview
- The commission closed its public hearings in late August after about 62 hearing days that heard roughly 340 witnesses and received around 20,000 written submissions.
- Rabbi Yehoram Ulman delivered the final emotional testimony recalling the December 14, 2025 Bondi attack and urging the nation to confront rising antisemitism.
- Senior counsel said much of the inquiry’s scrutiny of security agencies and the lead‑up to the attack was examined in closed or classified sessions to avoid prejudicing an ongoing criminal trial and revealing sensitive arrangements.
- Some Liberal figures and about 30 former national security and defence chiefs urged an extension so senior ministers and agency heads could give public evidence while mainstream Jewish groups publicly supported the commission as it stood.
- Commissioners plan to finalise an interim and final report with confidential volumes and have indicated parts of those volumes could be released after the criminal proceedings, with a final report date set for December 18, 2026.