My adjournment matter this evening is for the Minister for Multicultural Affairs, Minister Stitt, and the action that I am seeking is an update on what support is being provided to Victoria’s Jewish community, including in particular the Melbourne Holocaust Museum, to promote safety and understanding and to reduce instances of antisemitism and vilification. Recently,…
Macabre as this may sound, I wasn’t shocked at the nurses from Sydney’s Bankstown Hospital, cheerfully boasting, during a quiet moment on night shift, that they would not treat Israeli patients but would kill them. Horrified – certainly. My late father was an Auschwitz survivor who had been forced to present himself before the “angel of death”, Dr…
As an independent candidate in last weekend’s by-election in Prahran, I played a pivotal role in wresting the Victorian seat from the Greens by directing Labor voters to preference the Liberals over the Greens. This isn’t just me blowing my own trumpet: no less than Greens leader Adam Bandt and the party’s Victorian head, Ellen…
Our Zionism Is Not One of Mass Displacement and Eternal War, It’s of Equality and Freedom. The transfer of Palestinian residents of Gaza to a third country is an idea that is antithetical to Judaism and to Zionism. The American president is neither Jewish nor Zionist, but those of us who are must stand against…
Labor’s betrayal of Australian Jews As the child of Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors, it takes a lot to shock me. But as a lifelong member – and former Vice President – of the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party, I can only describe the Albanese Labor government’s announcement that Foreign Minister Penny Wong will…
National Cabinet met virtually today to reaffirm that Leaders are united in working together to stamp antisemitism out – and keep it out. The Prime Minister today convened a meeting of National Cabinet to address the shocking rise of antisemitic hate crimes. Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Reece Kershaw, briefed the meeting on the latest police…
