NSW Labor

October 28, 2021, 11:00 am

Secord, who is also the deputy chair of the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Israel, has spoken out in Parliament about neo-Nazi extremists, and also recently put forward legislation to ban the display of the Nazi flag and swastika.

By AJN STAFF

NSW Labor Leader Chris Minns has publicly opposed BDS.
Photo: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts

October 14, 2021, 7:00 am

‘Sensible and balanced approach’

The NSW Labor State Conference unanimously adopted Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese's support of the IHRA definition of antisemitism and his rejection of the BDS movement against Israel.

By Gareth Narunsky

NSW shadow police minister Walt Secord with the draft bill.

September 17, 2021, 9:30 am

NSW Labor push for swastika ban

It follows the announcement by Victoria's Labor government earlier this month that it will become the first Australian jurisdiction to legislate a ban on the public display of Nazi symbols.

By Gareth Narunsky

Chris Minns (left) with wife Anna and their children. Photo: Supplied

June 10, 2021, 10:15 am

Chris Minns a ‘strong friend to Jewish community’

Chris Minns, 41, was elected leader of the Labor Party unopposed last Friday following the resignation of Jodi McKay.

By Gareth Narunsky

April 7, 2020, 4:00 pm

Moselmane resignation welcomed

'Apart from his offensive remarks about China’s role in the [coronavirus] pandemic, Mr Moselmane has taken deeply problematic views on Israel and our community over the years'.

By AJN STAFF

From left: Walt Secord, David Ossip, Jodi McKay, Isabelle Shapiro and Vic Alhadeff.

July 9, 2019, 11:42 am

McKay meets with NSW Jewish community leaders

NEWLY elected NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay has formally met with the NSW Jewish communal leadership.

New NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay. Photo: Twitter

July 4, 2019, 12:00 am

NSW Labor leader pays tribute to Jewish community

NEWLY elected NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay has acknowledged the Jewish community’s “enormous contribution” to the state and says she is looking forward to meeting the communal leadership.

Labor MP Shaoquett Moselmane. Photo: Twitter

May 8, 2019, 2:23 pm

Outrage over Labor MP’s appointment

LABOR MP Shaoquett Moselmane, who described some Israel supporters as a "political lobby group that is cancerous, malicious and seeks to deny, misinform and scaremonger", has been appointed as assistant president of the NSW Legislative Council.

By Gareth Narunsky

Michael Daley (right) addressing the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Luncheon Club alongside CEO Vic Alhadeff. Photo: Giselle Haber

March 11, 2019, 12:00 am

Daley pledges $480k for Shalom Gamarada

NSW Labor has confirmed that $480,000 has been committed to fund six places in the Shalom Gamarada Indigenous Residential Scholarship Program as part of its Aboriginal Affairs policy.

By Gareth Narunsky

Penny Wong addressing the Labor Party National Conference on Tuesday. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch

December 20, 2018, 6:49 pm

Lines drawn in the sand

SEVENTY years of Australian bipartisan agreement on Israel are over. On Tuesday, four days after Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Australia now recognises West Jerusalem as Israel's capital, the Australian Labor Party – which says it will reverse that recognition in government – passed a resolution to recognise Palestine as a state.

By Gareth Narunsky

July 20, 2017, 12:01 am

Sydney Uni BDS forum under fire

JEWISH leaders have hit out at a “blatantly anti-Israel hate-fest” set to take place at the University of Sydney next week, with the university dissociating itself from the inaugural “BDS – Driving Global Justice for Palestine” conference.

By Evan Zlatkis

Bob Carr speaking at an ALP policy forum on Palestine at Canterbury-Hurlstone RSL Club in Sydney on June 27. Photo: Shane Desiatnik

June 29, 2017, 12:01 am

Carr’s conference call

LABOR frontbencher Anthony Albanese has refused to distance himself from comments by his former colleague Bob Carr who said this week that the ALP should “light up the sky with a resolution that says the next Labor federal government will recognise Palestine”.

By Shane Desiatnik

NSW Opposition Leader Luke Foley has promised to strengthen racial vilification laws if Labor is elected in the 2019 NSW election.

April 20, 2017, 11:11 am

MP under fire over Bibi-bashing speech

LABOR MP Julia Finn has been slammed for her “ill-informed and deeply offensive” comments about Benjamin Netanyahu in Parliament earlier this month, in which she labelled the Israeli Prime Minister “an enemy of peace”.

By Evan Zlatkis

September 29, 2016, 10:41 am

Labor Friends of Palestine booklet ‘demonises’ Israel

A BOOKLET produced by Australian Labor Friends of Palestine accusing the “pro-Israel lobby” of sending politicians, party officials and journalists to Israel to get a “carefully orchestrated, one-sided perspective” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been slammed as “disingenuous” by communal leaders.

By Evan Zlatkis

NSW Attorney-General Gabrielle Upton with Vic Alhadeff (on left) and Jeremy Spinak.

June 9, 2016, 12:00 am

Labor pushes for tougher hate laws

The NSW Labor Opposition has introduced legislation to stop hate speech in NSW, and accused the state government of sitting on its hands instead of fixing the state’s “broken” anti-vilification laws.

By Evan Zlatkis