Elections are usually a time of colourful candidates and robust debates, of tedious ads and glittering promises. However, the 2019 Australian federal election campaign was marred with an unusually high number of incidents of racism and bigotry directed towards candidates. Candidates of Aboriginal, Asian, Jewish and Arab-Muslim background were targeted. …
Read More »Jewish MP targetted with antisemitic graffiti during election campaign.
Julian Leeser is a Jewish MP who is is standing for re-election in the Federal seat of Berowra in NSW. in the upcoming Federal election. The following is posted with his permission from his Facebook page after a series of antisemitic graffiti attacks. ======= I am proud to be a …
Read More »The origins of genocide lie in permissive bias and discrimination.
There is much to find objectionable in Senator Fraser Anning’s first speech to the Australian Senate. The baffling, deplorable invocation of Nazi genocide by referring to immigration as a “problem” requiring a “final solution”, is particularly striking. But we mustn’t allow this conspicuous statement to prevent us from seeing the real …
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