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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 538

Rod McGuirk

A police car leads a diplomatic motorcade past the venue for the 50th ASEAN-Australia Special Summit, which is being held at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from March 4th-6th 2024, in Melbourne on March 5, 2024. (Martin KEEP / AFP)
October 12, 2024, 6:45 pm
Australian police sergeant likely to be charged over Nazi salute in front of recruits
Victoria state police chief apologizes to Jewish community for the actions of an academy instructor
By Rod McGuirk
Jacob Hersant, left, a self-described Nazi, walks from the Melbourne Magistrates Court in, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Rod McGuirk)
October 9, 2024, 8:16 am
Self-described Nazi set to become first Australian jailed for banned salute
Jacob Hersant says will continue to make outlawed gesture ‘but hopefully police officers don’t see it’; magistrate says he’ll get ‘relatively modest term of imprisonment’
By Rod McGuirk
People cross over a landslide area to get to the other side in Yambali village, Papua New Guinea, May 24, 2024. (Benjamin Sipa/International Organization for Migration via AP)
May 27, 2024, 3:18 pm
Papua New Guinea says 2,000 people buried under landslide, requests help
It is unclear how the number was reached after initial estimates said 670 were killed in village of Yambali, with six bodies recovered by Monday morning
By Rod McGuirk
This image from a vide, shows a parking lot where a knife-wielding teenage boy was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in Perth, Australia May 5, 2024. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation via AP)
May 6, 2024, 10:03 am
Teen ‘jihad’ stabber shot dead in Australia not tied to Sydney young extremists
Perth attacker who said he’d act for ‘sake of Allah’ before being killed by police said to be unconnected with east coast group, one of whom carried out terror-related stabbings
By Rod McGuirk
File: Security officers stand guard outside the Assyrian Orthodox Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney, Australia, April 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
April 29, 2024, 1:11 pm
Australian police say teens planned to buy guns, attack Jews after stabbing priest
Police documents say five teenagers aged 14-17 charged with offenses including conspiring to engage in or planning a terrorist act; one of them attacked Sydney bishop on April 15
By Rod McGuirk
Still image from a livestreamed sermon shows an assailant approaching Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel to stab him at the Assyrian Orthodox Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney, Australia, April 15, 2024. (Screenshot/Christ The Good Shepherd Church, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 17, 2024, 12:11 pm
Sydney Muslim leader: Teenage church stabber’s dad saw no sign of son’s extremism
Lebanese community representative disputes assault’s description as ‘terror,’ says 16-year-old’s father was ‘shocked’ his son attacked clerics during livestreamed service
By mark baker and Rod McGuirk
Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
July 21, 2023, 2:15 pm
Malka Leifer, charged with sexual abuse, to be sentenced in Australia next month
Former principal to receive punishment on August 24 following years-long battle to bring her to trial
By Rod McGuirk
Former principal Malka Leifer, wanted in Australia for child sex abuse crimes, seen at the Jerusalem District Court, on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 29, 2023, 10:12 am
Prosecutor: Malka Leifer faked mental illness to avoid extradition to Australia
At sentencing hearing for ex-principal convicted of sexual abuse, prosecution says fact that she ‘improperly frustrated and delayed extradition proceedings’ should be weighed
By Rod McGuirk
Sisters Nicole Meyer (L), Elly Sapper (C) and Dassi Erlich (R) leave the County Court in Melbourne on April 3, 2023, after the trial of former school principal Malka Leifer. (William WEST / AFP)
June 28, 2023, 12:58 pm
At sentencing hearing, sisters say Malka Leifer’s sex abuse scarred them ‘forever’
In Australian court following former educator’s conviction on 18 charges, victims detail the trauma; defense attorney claims Leifer is ‘truly lonely and isolated and broken woman’
By Rod McGuirk
A swastika flag, left, is displayed for sale at a store at the Gladstone Harbour Festival in central Queensland, April 11, 2006. (Chris Donaghy/AAP Image via AP)
June 8, 2023, 5:36 am
Australia plans to ban swastikas, other Nazi symbols in legislation next week
While most states already ban Nazi symbols, the federal law would go further by also banning the trade in such material, attorney general says
By Rod McGuirk
Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney, on June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
June 1, 2023, 1:43 pm
Most decorated living Aussie soldier murdered unarmed Afghan civilians, judge finds
Federal court dismisses Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation lawsuit against reporters, ruling allegations of war crimes to be substantially true
By mark baker and Rod McGuirk
People wave Australian flags as they line the street to watch the Anzac Day parade in Sydney, April 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
April 25, 2023, 11:43 am
Australia, New Zealand honor their fallen soldiers on Anzac Day
Dawn services and veterans’ street marches take place across both countries on anniversary of Gallipoli landing; Canberra sounds alarm over China’s increasing threat in region
By Rod McGuirk
Kanye West watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, on March 11, 2022. (AP/Ashley Landis)
January 25, 2023, 11:56 pm
Kanye may be barred from Australia over antisemitic remarks, minister says
Education Minister Jason Clare says people refused entry over antisemitism in past, adds rapper must apply for visa like others if he wishes to visit partner’s family next week
By Rod McGuirk
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks by video to the Lowy Institute international think tank located in Sydney, Australia, October 6, 2022 (Screen capture used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 6, 2022, 3:06 pm
Zelensky says Putin wouldn’t survive nuclear strike on Ukraine
Ukrainian president claims Russian president would be ‘unable… to preserve… his life’ if he carries out threatened attack
By Rod McGuirk
The Sydney Opera House is illuminated with a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
September 11, 2022, 11:38 am
‘Now’s not time to talk about it’: Queen’s death renews debate on Australia republic
Britain’s Elizabeth II enjoyed significant popularity Down Under, but new monarch and new pro-republic government in Canberra provide opening for fresh discussion of independence
By Rod McGuirk
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