$176M in Security Grants: Who Gets the Money? | The West Report
Government security grants aim to protect communities. But how much does the public know when public money is given to top institutions and then distributed further?
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Stephanie Tran’s research for Michael West Media found that Jewish community organizations receive far more per capita Commonwealth security grant funding than Muslim organisations, with most of the money flowing through the Executive Council of Australian Jews.
The question is not whether Jewish schools, synagogues and community organizations need protection. In the wake of rising antisemitism and the Bondi tragedy, security funding has clearly become a serious issue.
The question is transparency.
Where does the money go after it reaches ECAJ? Who buys it? What counts as “security”? And why does the public money route seem to result in an association created by ACT rather than a more transparent charity structure?
Senator David Shoebridge also pressed Homeland officials on how the government arrived at the size of the funding package.
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