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Tim Fischer.
October 19, 2018, 12:00 am
By-election candidates back new Monash bill
A three-year campaign led by former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer to posthumously promote Jewish Australian WWI legend General Sir John Monash to Field Marshal is alive again, with independent MP for Indi Catherine McGowan announcing on Monday that she will introduce a private member's bill to Parliament to achieve that objective on October 22 – just two days after the Wentworth ­by-election.
By Shane Desiatnik
Tim Fischer.
April 26, 2018, 12:00 am
It’s never too late to right a wrong
John Monash of Jerilderie and Melbourne did not receive one Australian Government award after his brilliant contribution as our best citizen general in helping to win World War One, not one!
NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has promised to strengthen racial vilification laws if Labor is elected in the 2019 NSW election.
December 14, 2017, 12:00 am
NSW government snub over 20D
Jewish communal leaders are furious that after a lengthy campaign supported by a coalition of faith and ethnic groups, the NSW government is not making expected changes to Section 20D of the Anti-Discrimination Act, despite an admission from former attorney-general Gabrielle Upton that the legislation as it currently stands is not working as intended.
By Joshua Levi
Tim Fischer speaking at the book launch. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
December 10, 2017, 12:00 am
Fischer ramps up Monash campaign
The push for the posthumous promotion of General Sir John Monash to Field Marshal gained further momentum on November 26 when former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer officially launched Professor Roland Perry's latest book, Monash and Chauvel.
By Shane Desiatnik
Stephen Harper speaking at the UIA Australia campaign gala event on February 27. Photo: Giselle Haber
March 2, 2017, 12:00 am
‘Never fear supporting Israel’: Harper
One of the Jewish State’s most loyal friends abroad, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper, received a standing ovation at the United Israel Appeal’s (UIA) 2017 campaign gala event at Sydney’s Darling Harbour Theatre on Monday – before he even spoke.
By Shane Desiatnik
Tzur Goldin. Photo: Noel Kessel
February 23, 2017, 12:00 am
Appeal for return of twin’s body
UIA NSW guest speaker Tzur Goldin vividly remembers August 1, 2014, the day his world was turned upside down in southern Gaza.
By Joshua Levi
Sydney's Gidon Goodman, 13, presents his petition for hospital parking fee regulation to NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner with Vaucluse MP Gabrielle Upton at NSW Parliament House on October 11.
October 21, 2016, 12:00 am
Fee fight taken to the top
It was one small meeting, but one giant step in 13-year-old Gidon Goodman’s campaign to reduce exorbitant hospital parking fees affecting thousands of Australians who, like him, require regular and ongoing hospital visits.
By Shane Desiatnik
The Southern Sydney Eruv is now operational.
September 16, 2016, 10:19 am
Anti-eruv campaign is ‘anti-Semitic’
Flyers claiming the motives behind the St Ives eruv are the establishment of a “modern version of the ghetto under rabbinical control” and the “eventual expulsion of secular people” have been condemned as “one of the worst examples of anti-Semitic literature we’ve seen in Sydney in a very long time”.
By Evan Zlatkis
Year 9 Moriah College student Gidon Goodman.
August 15, 2016, 12:00 am
Moriah student tackles hospital parking fees
A year 8 Moriah College student who suffers from a rare genetic disorder is taking his campaign for reduced hospital parking fees to the top echelons of government.
By Yael Brender
Ethnic community leaders gather at the launch of the Keep NSW Safe campaign. Photo: Noel Kessel
August 11, 2016, 9:46 am
Communities rally for race-hate reform
In an unprecedented move, a coalition of ethnic organisations came together on Wednesday to urge the state government to fix its -“completely ineffective” race-hate legislation.
By Evan Zlatkis
June 18, 2012, 11:00 am
Campaign prompts Olympic-sized response
HUNDREDS of AJN readers have put pen to paper urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to hold a minute’s silence at the opening ceremony of this year’s Games to commemorate the 11 Israeli athletes murdered at the Munich Games in 1972.
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