More than half of Australians say they are less confident that people of all faiths can live safely in the country following the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre, according to a new survey conducted for the Combat Antisemitism Movement.

The survey found that 52% of respondents felt less confident about religious safety after the attack. It also showed worsening attitudes toward Jewish Australians, with 30.5% describing those attitudes as negative, up from 28% last year.

Nearly half of respondents, 47%, said local municipal councils should be doing more to combat hate targeting Jewish communities, while 23% said racial or ethnic tensions in their local areas had worsened over the past year, compared with 18% in 2025.

Only 21% said local councils were doing enough to combat religiously motivated hate, down sharply from 40% a year earlier. Meanwhile, 16% said they had seen or heard of an antisemitic incident in their local area, up from 12.5% in 2025.

CAM Public Affairs Advocate for Australia Sheina Gutnick, whose father Reuven Morrison was murdered in the Bondi attack, called for stronger action from local leaders, saying, “My father was killed because hatred was allowed to grow unchecked.”

Waverley Mayor Will Nemesh also urged councils to take a more active role, saying local governments have an obligation to take “meaningful and decisive action” against antisemitism and hate.

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