A leading United Nations expert has said antisemitism is “toxic to democracy” as he reported his findings on the rise in Jew-hate to the General Assembly. Ahmed Shaheed, UN’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, noted that antisemitism was rising on both the left and right. “I am alarmed by the growing use…
As I write this foreword to Clyde Holding’s 1975 Sam Cohen Memorial Lecture, this country is embroiled in an election campaign made bitter and divisive by extraordinary and undemocratic actions never before known in Australia. I take no smug satisfaction from prophetic words I used towards the end of the 1971 Inaugural Sam Cohen Memorial…
Here in Jerusalem, I acknowledge the first Australians, whose culture we honour this evening as among the oldest continuing cultures in human history. So we gather at Yad Vashem. I have been to this place before and so has my wife Therese. We have been here not as the representatives of any government; we have…
On 6 December 1938 —almost 80 years ago— during a warm summer evening in Melbourne one man led a protest in an attempt to protect a discriminated against, marginalised peoples on the other side of the world. A protest was truly ahead of its time in its courage and foresight. That man was William Cooper,…
National elections are taking place in Israel today. Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that if he is re-elected as Prime Minister he’ll move to annex the Jordan Valley and other territory in the West Bank, in what the UN has called the first step to applying Israeli sovereignty over all settlements and other areas in the…
Preamble: In view of the following: – It is now 102 years since the British Lord Balfour declaration on the partition of Palestine when the British granted a national home for the Jewish people. It was declared on the proviso that…. ‘It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil…
Preamble: In view of the following: – It is now 102 years since the British Lord Balfour declaration on the partition of Palestine when the British granted a national home for the Jewish people. It was declared on the proviso that…. ‘It being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil…
In the first six months of 2019 alone, 43 were killed in workplace accidents – construction industry and the commerce and services sector have shown the biggest rise in fatalities. Forty-three workers were killed on the job in the first six months of the 2019, the highest number of fatalities for January-June in the past…
Police have not opened criminal investigations in 75 percent of job site accidents from 2016 to 2018 that led to deaths or severe injuries for workers, according to figures released under freedom-of-information laws. Police records show that of 850 worksite accidents during those years in which police were called in, only in 212 did officers…
