Dear Fellow Australian

Dear Fellow Australian,

I’m just like you - a regular bloke trying to get on with life. I pay my taxes, watch the footy, worry about the mortgage, and want my kids and grandkids to grow up in the safe, fair, laid-back Australia I knew. But after what’s unfolded since October 7, 2023, I’m making a submission to the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion - and I’m asking you to do the same.

Here’s why it matters to you, not just Jewish Australians.

Since October 7 we’ve watched a shocking surge in antisemitic incidents - thousands recorded, many times the previous rate. What began as street protests quickly spilled into open hatred: synagogue attacks, Jewish schoolkids assaulted, businesses vandalised, and chants celebrating the murder of civilians. Then came the December 14, 2025 Bondi Beach massacre - an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration that left 15 innocent people dead. These weren’t isolated events. They exposed something much bigger: the fraying of the social cohesion that lets 26 million of us live together in relative peace and prosperity.

The uncomfortable truth staring us in the face is that a major driver of this breakdown is the growing influence of radical and orthodox Islam in parts of our society. While plenty of individual Muslims are decent, hard-working Aussies, large segments of Islamic teaching and community practice are simply incompatible with the classic Western freedoms and the Australian way of life we all take for granted.

Think about it in plain terms that affect your day-to-day life:

• Free speech — the right to criticise ideas without looking over your shoulder - is under threat wherever blasphemy sensitivities kick in.
• Equality for women and girls — the same freedoms your daughters enjoy - are eroded by pressure for veiling, segregation, and honour-based control in some communities.
• Secular law and one set of rules for everyone — we’re seeing demands for parallel Sharia norms, “no-go” pockets in certain suburbs, and loyalty to the ummah above loyalty to Australia.
• Live-and-let-live tolerance — the easy-going multiculturalism that used to work - is being replaced by tribal identity politics that treats outsiders (especially Jews first, then the rest of us) as enemies.

This isn’t “diversity.” It’s slow-motion fragmentation. If we let it continue unchecked, your suburb, your kids’ school, your workplace, and your weekend freedoms will change — and not for the better. History is littered with examples of societies that imported incompatible ideologies and paid the price in lost cohesion, rising crime, and eventual conflict. Australia is not immune.

The Royal Commission is one of the rare official chances for everyday secular voices like ours to be heard before the policy doors slam shut. Submissions are open right now (you can even stay anonymous). They want to hear from ordinary Australians about what we’ve seen in our communities and what kind of country we want for the future.

If you care about safe streets, free speech, equal rights for your kids, and an Australia that still feels like home in twenty years’ time, this is your moment. Silence isn’t neutrality - it’s surrender by default.

The time for hoping it will all blow over is over. Speak up while you still can.

To help you think about this and make a submission sign up for our online briefing:

https://events.humanitix.com/royal-commission-briefing

Cheers,

A Concerned Everyday Australian

Sydney, NSW

Mark Leach

The Allies (Never Again Is Now)
Founder

PS share this letter with any and all of your friends who might agree with us so we can build an unstoppable movement to make antisemitism unthinkable!