Australian Human Rights Commission
A man holds a sign against antisemitism while anti-Israel protesters congregate in the background. Photo: Lisa Goldberg
February 26, 2026, 11:46 am
Flawed report does not seriously address Jew hate
The AHRC report fails to grasp the nature and evolving characteristics of antisemitism.
By GREG ROSE
Brighton Secondary College. Photo: Peter Haskin
February 5, 2026, 12:02 pm
Students launch class action over antisemitism
Seven former students file AHRC complaint alleging unlawful discrimination at Brighton Secondary College.
By Sharyn Kolieb
Australian Human Rights Commissioner Lorraine Finlay (centre) has joined the calls for a Royal Commission. She is pictured with National Council of Jewish Women of Australia (NCJWA) NSW vice-president Nathalie Samia (left) and NCJWA federal president Lynda-Ben Menashe at NCJWA's Women's Vigil at Bondi on December 21. Photo: Facebook
January 2, 2026, 12:08 pm
Business leaders join growing calls for Royal Commission
The business leaders said the Bondi massacre was a 'national crisis' requiring a 'national response'
By AJN STAFF
The pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel encampment at the University of Melbourne in May 2024. Photo: Peter Haskin
August 21, 2025, 11:47 am
ECAJ calls for responses
The peak body representing Australian Jews has serious concerns about how the survey has been designed.
By Bruce Hill
Extremist cleric Sheikh Ahmed Zod delivers an inflammatory sermon at a mosque in Lakemba.
May 30, 2025, 11:31 am
Extremist cleric apologises for calling Jews ‘bloodthirsty monsters’
Sheikh Ahmed Zod delivered the sermon in a Lakemba Mosque in 2023, prompting ECAJ to lodge a racial hatred complaint against him before the Australian Human Rights Commission.
By AJN STAFF
Nina Taylor (centre) with Jewish Community Council of Victoria board member Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann and COO Naomi Levin.
September 26, 2023, 6:22 am
Call for submissions
"While we would prefer that making these laws would not be necessary, this government will always take action to tackle racism, hate speech and hate conduct head on..."
By Bruce Hill
Photo: University of Queensland website
March 18, 2022, 9:40 am
Lecturer’s complaint
Incident highlights need for Australian universities to adopt IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
By Carly Adno
ICJW delegates in the entrance of The Great Synagogue. Photo: Wendy Bookatz
June 13, 2018, 2:24 pm
Worldwide women gather in OZ
REPRESENTING 16 different countries and five Australian states, passionate female Jewish leaders gathered at the International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW) Quadrennial Convention in Sydney last week, at which the organisation's first Australian president, Robyn Lenn, completed her four-year term of presidency.
Yvette Coppersmith with her Archibald Prize-winning Self-portrait, after George Lambert.
May 18, 2018, 12:01 am
Archibald win for Yvette
ONE of the first people to congratulate artist Yvette Coppersmith on winning the $100,000 Archibald Prize for her self-portrait last week was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, who had knocked back the artist's request to sit for a portrait.
Reverend Bill Crews with the statue memorialising Korean sex slaves.
December 26, 2016, 12:00 am
Shoah memorials ‘safe under 18C’
There is no danger Holocaust commemorations could be impeded by Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, say Jewish groups.
By Peter Kohn
Adam Schwartz at his Dover Heights home. Photo: Noel Kessel
December 22, 2015, 12:00 am
Depression in the spotlight
AUTHOR Adam Schwartz was a finalist for the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Young People’s Human Rights Medal, presented as part of the commission's 2015 Human Rights Awards.
By Evan Zlatkis
Executive Council of Australian Jewry executive director Peter Wertheim.
January 27, 2015, 12:00 am
Fighting discrimination for four decades
By Gareth Narunsky
November 17, 2014, 12:00 am
The lessons of Kristallnacht
By Gareth Narunsky
June 3, 2014, 12:00 am
Leaders join Goodes to combat racism
IN the wake of the deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels last weekend, two leaders of the Sydney Jewish community have joined forces with AFL star Adam Goodes to combat racism.
By Evan Zlatkis
May 16, 2014, 12:00 am
18C helped beat Facebook hate page
COMMUNITY leaders say section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) helped them to persuade Facebook this week to close down a page run by the Australian branch of the far-right Greek political party Golden Dawn.
By Peter Kohn
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