First week of antisemitism royal commission: hearings begin, country waits

SBS News · Friday 8 May 2026

First week of antisemitism royal commission: hearings begin, country waits

The antisemitism royal commission has wrapped its opening week of hearings, with horrors aired and recommendations still to come.

Royal commissions in this country are what we reach for when the parliament's gone troppo and the press has moved on. A week of horrors aired, recommendations to follow, and the Bondi attack still sits in the same political ecosystem that produced it. Hearing it doesn't fix it. Writing the report doesn't either.

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