The Australian founding of the organisation in 1928 by Jewish Polish immigrants, expanded rapidly after the Second World War with the mass arrival of Holocaust survivors to Australia.

[6] It had a focus on current events, organising talks around; the potential for World War, Poland's precarity vis-à-vis Nazi Germany, the threat of Japan to Australia, and local issues.

[7][4] Waks is credited with campaigning for Arthur Calwell; then Minister for Immigration, to provide Australian visas to Jewish displaced persons following World War II.

[3] Sender and Waks, after meeting with a newly elected Arthur Calwell, were invited to speak at the Victorian Labour Party 1943 Easter Conference in front of 500 delegates.

[9] Following the Second World War, the Bund rapidly grew due immigration from Eastern Europe[10] and soon affiliated itself to the pro-Labor New Australia Council (NAC).

The Bundists had turned against the group after their refusal to condemn late Stalin-era antisemitism like the 1952 Czech Slansky show trial or the Doctors' plot.

[3][14] However despite this shift in position vis-à-vis the Cold War, the organisation would still continue protest the domestic antisemitic policies of the Soviet Union; such as the ban on emigration.

It's one of the few places where they were able very soon to come and have their concerts and their gatherings but on the other hand, you speak to Russian Jews and they’ll often talk about their sense of being outsiders within a community and that they weren't made as welcome as they thought they should be.

[16] The Bund has been crucial in continuing the active use of Yiddish in the city, with this being attributed to the fact that early Bundists made an explicit effort to preserve its use.

[20] Every year the Bund runs both summer and winter camps for its SKIF youth wing, along with the weekly Sunday meetings the organisation undertakes.

[11][22][16] It was founded in 1950 by two Immigrants from Eastern Europe; Pinkhas (Pinye) Ringelbaum and Symkhe Burstin, based on how the organisation had functioned in Poland prior to the Second World War.

[7] Each year the Bund holds its Bono Weiner Memorial Lecture, often involving academics, activists, writers and politicians discussing various social issues.

Notable past presenters include: Barry Jones AC, Pat Dodson, Julian Burnside, Behrouz Boochani, Nyadol Nyuon and Bruce Pascoe.

[19] In 2022 the Bund launched an archive; which includes newspaper articles in both English and Yiddish, lectures by academics, and journalistic reports about the organisation.

Recurring topics mostly include diaspora jewish politics (especially of the non-zionist type), social issues in Australia, and Golus nationalism.