Mark Leibler
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
April 19, 2019, 12:00 am
Committed to West Jerusalem as capital
COMMUNAL leaders have welcomed the opening of a new Australian Trade and Defence Office in Jerusalem as a sign of Australia's continued commitment to recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
People at the rally performed Nazi salutes. Photo: Screengrab, ABC News
January 10, 2019, 12:01 am
‘Confine these views to the dustbin of history’
JEWISH leaders have joined a legion of Australians condemning an anti-immigration rally in Melbourne on Saturday attended by Queensland senator Fraser Anning, at which neo-Nazi salutes were made and Nazi paraphernalia was displayed.
By Peter Kohn
From left: Alfred (Uncle Boydie) Turner, activist Leon Saunders and Abe Schwarz at a 2012 commemoration of William Cooper's walk.
October 30, 2018, 12:00 am
Melbourne to mark Cooper’s protest march
Marchers plan to converge on Melbourne's CBD on December 6 to commemorate the walk of Aboriginal human rights advocate William Cooper to the German consulate 80 years ago on that date with a protest note from his Australian Aborigines League over Kristallnacht.
By Peter Kohn
Kevin Rudd (left) and Mark Leibler in 2011. Photo: Peter Haskin
October 26, 2018, 12:01 am
Leibler refutes Rudd allegations
FORMER prime minister Kevin Rudd's account of a meeting with Jewish communal stalwart Mark Leibler during the 2010 passports affair is "completely false", the latter said last week.
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin
October 18, 2018, 12:01 am
PM considering embassy move
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has denied that an announcement to look at moving Australia's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem is motivated by Jewish votes in this weekend's Wentworth by-election.
By Gareth Narunsky
Julie Bishop speaking at Beth Weizmann Community Centre in Melbourne last year. Photo: Ren Rizzolo
September 4, 2018, 9:35 am
‘Israel support to continue’
AUSTRALIA'S new Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne will continue to support the State of Israel, according to Liberal deputy leader Josh Frydenberg.
Nikki Haley addressing the UN General Assembly last Wednesday. Photo: UN Photo/Evan Schneider
June 22, 2018, 12:01 am
‘Voice of truth, honesty’
THE United Nations General Assembly has "disgraced itself by siding with terrorists" after it passed a one-sided resolution last week condemning Israel for defending its Gaza border, Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Anton Block said.
By Gareth Narunsky
Australian representative to the UNHRC Sally Mansfield voted against the resolution. Photo: UN Photo /Elma Okic
May 24, 2018, 12:01 am
‘We can hold head high’
A UNITED Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution to investigate Israel's actions at the Gaza border during the recent violent unrest "failed the test of balance and impartiality", Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said.
By Gareth Narunsky
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.
May 10, 2018, 12:01 am
Bishop slams Abbas’s ‘anti-Semitic’ comments
AUSTRALIAN Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has condemned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's assertion that the Jews caused the Holocaust as "anti-Semitic".
By Gareth Narunsky
ZFA president Danny Lamm.
March 28, 2018, 12:01 am
Australia votes ‘no’
JEWISH community leaders have praised the Australian government for voting against a series of anti-Israel resolutions in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last Friday.
By Peter Kohn
At the closing ceremony of the Indigenous Constitutional Convention, from left, Indigenous leader Noel Pearson; Mark Leibler and Pat Anderson, Referendum Council co-chairs, and Professor Megan Davis, UNSW’s Pro Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous.
June 4, 2017, 12:01 am
Reflections on reconciliation
Reconciliation advocate Mark Leibler is “reasonably optimistic” about the prospects of a meaningful place for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia’s Constitution.
The neighbourhood of Gilo in East Jerusalem. Photo: Jpost/Wikimedia Commons
February 16, 2017, 12:00 am
Unsettled over settlements
Australian Jewish leaders have expressed concern over Israel’s controversial new legislation on settlements, describing the law which would retroactively legalise an estimated 4000 West Bank settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land as “troubling” and “counterproductive”.
By Evan Zlatkis
AIJAC’s Jeremy Jones (left) met Shimon Peres in Jerusalem in 2007.
September 29, 2016, 10:25 am
Australian Jewish leaders mourn Peres
“Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives.” So said Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding generation of leaders.
Tributes have poured in for the world's most famous voice of Holocaust survival, Elie Wiesel. Photo: AP.
July 7, 2016, 12:00 am
Wiesel mourned
Politicians and Jewish leaders have lauded Elie Wiesel, the world’s most famous voice of Holocaust survival, who died aged 87 last Saturday (July 2).
By Peter Kohn
A makeshift memorial for victims of the Pulse nightclub. Photo: AP Photo/David Goldman.
June 16, 2016, 12:00 am
Community mourns Orlando victims
Australian Jewry has expressed its sadness and shock at the massacre carried out at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida that left 49 people dead and 53 injured.
By Evan Zlatkis
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