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How Dunera Boy’s tale became a bestseller
On September 6, 1940, a grey steamer docked at Sydney’s Circular Quay. Among the passengers was Ulrich Boschwitz. At 11.30am on Friday, September 6, 1940, a grey steamer docked at Sydney’s Circular Quay and began disgorging a unique cargo: men, young, old, tall and short, but uniformly pale, cowed and unkempt, blinking in a sun…
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Liberal Senator calls for WA Bar President to resign following clash over Burnside tweet
Victorian Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson says she thinks WA Bar Association President Mark Cuerden SC should resign over bringing the WA Bar “into disrepute” regarding his defence of Julian Burnside’s anti-Semitic tweet. The Australian reports Mr Cuerden has since backtracked on his support of Mr Burnside following backlash. “I think he’s really brought into disrepute…
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Dispute with president of WA Bar Association
There has been an exchange of emails between Western Australian Bar Association President Martin Cuerden SC and Mark Leibler. Apparently the Executive Council of Australian Jewry has also gotten into the act. The following is a letter from Peter Wertheim to Martin Cuerden in response to an almost identical email that was sent to Martin…
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Clear definition of anti-Semitism aims to stop its rise
Much of the outrage sparked by barrister Julian Burnside’s recent tweet (since withdrawn) likening the treatment of Palestinians to that of Jews during the Holocaust hinged on the assessment that someone with his level of education should know better. But the sad reality is, with an uptick in anti-Semitism being experienced by Jewish people across…
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Israel suspected of attack on oil tanker
An explosion on board an oil tanker moored at a port in Syria on Tuesday injured two people and raised suspicion it had been hit by Israel in retaliation for alleged Iranian attacks on shipping. Smoke was seen billowing from a ship moored at Latakia port and identified by the TankerTrackers.com monitoring website as the…
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‘Nickel Queen’ was a female force in a man’s world
MILLIE PHILLIPS: 1929 – 2021 At the height of her fame, on the back of the 1969 nickel boom Millie Phillips was branded as “the Nickel Queen” and lionised as the epitome of a “woman in a man’s world”. She was the first woman in Australian history to acquire mineral exploration areas and to float and…
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Vendors at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota are selling merchandise bearing Nazi imagery
Nazi imagery is being sold at this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota. It’s the largest motorcycle rally in the world, drawing scores of riders and revelers. Dr. Anthony Fauci warned this year’s festivities may again become a superspreader event. As hundreds of thousands of bikers ride into Sturgis, South Dakota, for it’s annual…
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Queensland auction house criticised for ‘sickening’ sale of Nazi items
A yellowed armband that a Jewish person would have been forced to wear in a Nazi-controlled ghetto is among dozens of items linked to the oppressive regime listed for auction by a Queensland business. The coming sale was labelled “sickening” by a prominent Jewish campaigner, but the Gold Coast auction house behind the sale argued…
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WA Bar president Mark Cuerden backs down from defence of Julian Burnside
The president of the WA Bar Association has walked back his defence of Julian Burnside QC following a backlash over the association’s fight with Liberal senator Sarah Henderson. Mark Cuerden SC on Wednesday wrote to senior legal figure and the national chairman of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, Mark Leibler, stopping short of an…
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Israel’s COVID infections surge as government rolls out booster shots
Israel was one of the first countries in the world to roll out a vaccine program and the first to offer a third booster shot to adults aged over 60. But Israel is now struggling with its biggest COVID-19 spike since February amid government warnings the country is at a “critical point”. Listen to Cyrille…