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Mike Kelly, an Australian federal lawmaker of the Labor party. (Screenshot: YouTube)
February 28, 2018, 8:47 pm
Neo-Nazi group targets Australian lawmaker with anti-Semitic poster
Flier with swastika and ‘reject Jewish poison’ slogan hung in office window of Mike Kelly, whose wife is Jewish
By JTA
Bourhan Hraichie, charged in connection with planning a terror act in Australia, September 14, 2016. (Youtube screenshot)
September 14, 2016, 3:56 pm
Australian man charged with plotting terror attack
Bourhan Hraichie, who allegedly carved Islamic State symbol into cellmate’s forehead earlier this year, pens letter discussing beheading plans
By AFP and TOI staff
Australian lawmaker Josh Frydenberg is sworn in to the new Turnbull Government at Government House in Canberra, Australia, on September 21, 2015. (Stefan Postles/Getty Images/Pool via AP)
July 6, 2016, 8:24 pm
5 Jewish lawmakers elected to Australian parliament
Jewish Liberal from New South Wales set to join plenary for the first time in its 115-year history
By JTA
Kosher McDonald's restaurant in Ashkelon, Israel. (Creative Commons via JTA)
May 17, 2016, 6:18 pm
Australian trademark office turns down ‘McKosher’ moniker
Mark Glaser loses bid against McDonald’s to name ‘a Scottish and Jewish restaurant’ after ancestors
By JTA
Former National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) Warren Mundine in a March 2014 interview. (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 4, 2016, 7:10 pm
Australian party branch seeks to ban members from Israel visits
Ex-ALP president slams proposal by New South Wales lawmakers as ‘illogical, verging on anti-Semitism’
By JTA
Broken Hill Synagogue (Wikipedia Commons)
December 1, 2015, 7:59 pm
Historic synagogue in Australian outback vandalized
On its 105th anniversary, Broken Hill shul defaced with Nazi and Islamic symbols
By JTA
Nationalist demonstrators protest at a rally against Islamic extremism in Sydney, Australia on July 19, 2015. ( AFP PHOTO / Peter Parks)
July 19, 2015, 9:08 am
Anti-Islam rallies, counter-protests flare in Australia
Demonstration against Islamic extremism draws anti-racism activists in Sydney; protesters clash with police in Melbourne
By AFP
Sydney's Jewish Museum (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Sardaka)
December 15, 2014, 12:49 pm
Sydney teen who yelled ‘Kill the Jews’ sentenced to Shabbat dinner
Australian youth who terrorized kids will also visit a Jewish museum, read Elie Wiesel, Primo Levi as per judgment
By JTA
Executive Director of the Immigrant Women's Health Service Eman Sharobeem, Australia. (screen capture:YouTube/60Minutes9)
December 2, 2014, 9:09 am
Australia probing report of 9-year-old taken to Mideast to marry
Authorities increasingly concerned for the fate of young girls taken abroad to forced marriages
By AFP
February 22, 2013, 2:27 pm
Aussie rabbi denies he knew of sex abuse at school
Allegations the latest in a wave of sex-abuse scandals in Sydney and Melbourne
December 17, 2012, 5:45 pm
Holocaust to be part of Australia’s national curriculum
New South Wales will be the first to teach the subject
September 6, 2012, 9:28 am
Australian human rights award named in Wallenberg’s honor
Inauguration marks a century since the birth of the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust
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