Government security grants are meant to protect communities. But when public money is handed to peak bodies and then distributed further, how much does the public get to know?
Read the story: https://michaelwest.com.au/wheres-the-money-government-and-israel-lobby-coy-on-big-grants/
Stephanie Tran’s investigation for Michael West Media found Jewish community organisations received vastly more Commonwealth security grant funding per capita than Muslim organisations, with much of the money flowing through the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
The question is not whether Jewish schools, synagogues and community organisations need protection. In the wake of rising antisemitism and the Bondi tragedy, security funding is plainly a serious issue.
The question is transparency.
Where does the money go after it reaches ECAJ? Who receives it? What is counted as “security”? And why does the public money trail appear to end with an ACT incorporated association rather than a more transparent charity structure?
Senator David Shoebridge also pressed Home Affairs officials in estimates over how the government arrived at the size of the funding package.
Follow the grants. Follow the disclosure. Follow the money.
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