Mark Dreyfus dumped from cabinet
Jewish Labor MP Mike Freelander slammed the decision to dump Dreyfus as "pathetic" last Wednesday.
There will be no Jewish member of Parliament on a federal government frontbench for the first time in 15 years, after Mark Dreyfus was dumped as attorney-general over the weekend.
News reports emerged late last week that intent Labor factional negotiations, headed by Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles, would see Dreyfus discarded from the ministry in favour of second-term Hawke MP Sam Rae. Muslim MP Ed Husic was also dropped.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Daniel Aghion said Dreyfus deserved kinder treatment from his party.
“As federal attorney-general in the Albanese, Gillard and Rudd governments, and in other cabinet positions, Mark has been a safe pair of hands and a key intellectual leader,” Aghion said.
“In close consultation with the Jewish community, he initiated important legislative reforms to make our anti-incitement laws more workable, and to ban the public display of Nazi and terrorist symbols, the Nazi salute and the trade in Nazi memorabilia.
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