ECAJ statement on 2025 federal election results.

Exec­u­tive Coun­cil of Aus­tralian Jew­ry co-CEO Peter Wertheim said:

We have sent our con­grat­u­la­tions to the Prime Min­is­ter on lead­ing the gov­ern­ment to an his­toric vic­to­ry at the polls.  

We look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing the good, mutu­al­ly respect­ful rela­tion­ship that the ECAJ has main­tained with the gov­ern­ment, and we see this to be in everyone’s inter­ests.

We will con­tin­ue to urge the gov­ern­ment to stand strong against anti­semitism in both word and deed.

Where we have dif­fer­ent views on the best way towards a sus­tain­able two-state out­come to the Israel-Pales­tin­ian con­flict we will con­tin­ue to put our case to the gov­ern­ment in a con­struc­tive and rea­soned man­ner.

The elec­tion results have made it abun­dant­ly clear that the Aus­tralian peo­ple are look­ing for prag­ma­tism, and have less and less time for ide­o­logues of any kind.  The elec­toral pun­ish­ment met­ed out by the vot­ers to the Greens and oth­er ide­o­log­i­cal­ly-dri­ven spe­cial inter­est groups is par­tic­u­lar­ly note­wor­thy.

It is grat­i­fy­ing that each of the sit­ting Jew­ish MPs Josh Burns, Julian Leeser, Mike Free­lander and Mark Drey­fus will be returned, and we con­grat­u­late them.

We also send our thanks to Peter Dut­ton for his con­sis­tent sup­port for our com­mu­ni­ty, and we wish him and his fam­i­ly all the very best for the future.