Author Archives: lkinsella

Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Legislation Against UNRWA Under Consideration by the Israeli Knesset 27 October 2024

On 27 October, Australia released the below Joint Foreign Ministers’ Statement with Canada and five other like-minded countries: We, the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom, express our grave concern over legislation currently under consideration by the Israeli Knesset, aimed at revoking the privileges and immunities…

“It smells like an abattoir”, Electorate office of Peter Khalil MHR vandalised – sprayed with red paint and other substances, 13 October 2024

Party I love dumps Enlightenment values, principles, The Australian, 12 October 2024

I’m a life member of the Labor Party and the party has been a big part of my life. When I joined as a teenager I’d been an apprentice mechanic, but aspired to a different career. The Whitlam government gave me the opportunity to become the first in my family to attend university, where I…

Motion moved in the Australian Parliament by the Hon. Anthony Albanese MHR, Prime Minister of Australia, 8 October 2024

That the House of Representatives: (1) reiterates its unequivocal condemnation of Hamas’ terror attacks on Israel which took place on 7 October 2023, in which more than 1,200 innocent Israelis were killed, the largest loss of Jewish life on any single day since the Holocaust; (2) recognises that hundreds more innocent people were subjected to…

National Statement to the United Nations General Assembly

Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Hon Penny Wong, New York, 28 September 2024 President, friends – Steeled by the horror of the most catastrophic conflict in history, humanity forged our United Nations. Its purpose often defined not as taking us to heaven, but saving us from hell. Yet we convene this week with so…

Top university rejects antisemitism definition over academic freedom, The Age (Angus Thompson), 10 July 2024

The Australian National University has refused to adopt a contentious definition of antisemitism used by other tertiary institutions after receiving internal advice that it risked reducing academic freedom. The deliberations contributing to the university’s stance, taken months before the outbreak of the Gaza conflict, were revealed in confidential documents as the government this week announced…

Special envoy to combat Antisemitism, 9 July 2024

There is no place for racism, prejudice or hate in Australia. That’s why the Albanese Government has just announced Jillian Segal AO as Special Envoy to combat Antisemitism, and we’ll soon be announcing a Special Envoy to combat Islamophobia. pic.twitter.com/Pu3CHbkAhH — Andrew Giles MP (@andrewjgiles) July 9, 2024