Tag: Australia

Ralph Babet, 40, who represents Victoria in the Australian Senate, was photographed with a young man who appears to display a Nazi-like salute. The Australian politician, who is seen giving a thumbs up, has said...

The parliament of Australia has passed a new law making it illegal to promote iconography associated with the Third Reich. The bill, called the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment, received unanimous support on Wednesday. Mark Alfred Dreyfus, the attorney general...

Jeremy Jones, one of the most influential figures in Australia’s Jewish community, passed away on Sept. 6 after losing a battle with cancer. The 64-year-old was the director of international and community affairs at the Australia/Israel &...

Australia's Labor government will resume the use of the term "occupied Palestinian territories" in reference to eastern Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip, reversing an unofficial policy stance that had been in place...

Young people who take part in charity programs feel more connections to Judaism. That’s according to a new survey from Honeycomb, a Jewish youth philanthropy resource. “By creating space to blend these passions with Jewish learning and...

If an Australian Jewish high school student hadn’t missed a deadline in 2009, her family might not have gone on to found a nonprofit, which is helping young people some 4,300 miles away in...

The governing Australian Labor Party’s branch in Victoria, the country’s second-most-populous state, passed a resolution calling on the federal government to “move immediately to recognise Palestine.” The measure was “carried by the voices,” meaning it...

The New South Wales government is offering a $1 million reward for information leading to criminal convictions in connection with the bombing of two Australian Jewish institutions in 1982. The reward, originally set at $100,000 in 2012,...

When Australia’s new prime minister, Anthony Albanese, won his country’s federal election last month, there was speculation in various media outlets in Australia and abroad over whether he would alter policy with regard to...

Officials from the University of Melbourne in Australia have condemned an “anti-Semitic motion” recently passed by the school’s student union that calls for a boycott of Israeli universities and academics. The resolution, passed 10-6 by the...