Section 18c
Wissam Haddad (left) leaves the Federal Court of Australia, in Sydney, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.. Photo: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
July 1, 2025, 1:08 pm
Federal Court finds Islamic preacher breached racial discrimination laws
Judge says Wissam Haddad conveyed 'disparaging imputations about Jewish people' that included 'age-old tropes against Jewish people that are fundamentally racist and antisemitic'
By Gareth Narunsky
Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Photo: AAP.
April 24, 2025, 5:14 pm
Major parties outline diverging policies in AIJAC questionnaire
Topics ranged from Australia’s relationship with Israel and the Gaza conflict to strategies for addressing antisemitism, multiculturalism, and handling public broadcaster complaints
By AJN STAFF
NSW Opposition leader Luke Foley addressing members of the multicultural media at NSW Parliament House. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
April 14, 2017, 12:00 am
Foley: ‘No deals with Hanson’
NSW Opposition leader Luke Foley has challenged Premier Gladys Berejiklian to “rule out” a Liberal–One Nation preference deal ahead of the next state election.
By Shane Desiatnik
Executive Council of Australian Jewry executive director Peter Wertheim.
April 7, 2017, 12:00 am
Senate rejects 18C amendment
There has been a mixed reaction from leading members of the Jewish community to news that Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act will remain unchanged.
By Evan Zlatkis
PM Malcolm Turnbull and Attorney-General George Brandis discussing the proposed amendment to Section 18C on Tuesday. Photo: AAP Image/Sam Mooy
March 23, 2017, 12:00 am
Mixed reaction to 18C proposal
Jewish community opinion remains divided over Section 18C of the federal Racial Discrimination Act, after news that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is proposing landmark changes to the act.
By Peter Kohn
Attorney-General George Brandis (left), who has said people have a "right to be bigots", with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Photo: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts
March 2, 2017, 12:00 am
Report ‘shows no reason to change 18C’
Jewish community leaders have welcomed this week’s findings by Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights report on the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA), which failed to reach a consensus on amending freedom-of-speech laws.
By Peter Kohn
Executive Council of Australian Jewry executive director Peter Wertheim.
February 9, 2017, 12:00 am
Leaders address 18C committee
Two communal organisations presented cases for the retention of existing anti-racism legislation when they spoke to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights last week.
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
Attorney-General George Brandis has argued that people have the "right to be a bigot". Photo: AAP Images/Lukas Coch
December 16, 2016, 12:00 am
Keep 18C intact, urge roof bodies
Australia's peak Jewish communal organisations have called for a hands-off approach to the Racial Discrimination Act’s provision prohibiting speech that offends or insults.
By Peter Kohn
Departing ECAJ president Robert Goot addresses the 2016 ECAJ conference in Sydney on November 27. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
December 1, 2016, 12:00 am
18C dominates ECAJ AGM
Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act dominated debate at the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s 2016 conference on November 27.
By Shane Desiatnik
Julian Leeser addresses the November plenum alongside JBOD community relations committee chair Lesli Berger and Dr Mike Freelander. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
November 25, 2016, 12:00 am
JBOD welcomes new Jewish MPs
It was a homecoming for Julian Leeser, and a timely reconnection for Dr Mike Freelander, when the two newest Jewish federal MPs in the House of Representatives addressed the NSW JBOD November plenum.
By Shane Desiatnik
AIJAC executive director Colin Rubenstein.
November 10, 2016, 12:00 am
Caution urged over 18C inquiry
Communal leaders are cautiously welcoming a parliamentary inquiry into freedom of speech, but maintain sections 18C and 18D should remain untouched.
By Evan Zlatkis
NSW Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet speaking at the Centre for Independent Studies' Leaders Lunch. Photo: YouTube screenshot
November 7, 2016, 12:08 pm
Perrottet weighs in on 18C
NSW Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet told The AJN this week that no racial group should be subjected to public statements intended to incite violence.
By Evan Zlatkis
Executive Council of Australian Jewry executive director Peter Wertheim.
October 6, 2016, 12:00 am
Community unites for 18C
The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies and the Jewish Community Council of Victoria have united in support of keeping Sections 18C and 18D of the Racial Discrimination Act in their present form.
By Evan Zlatkis
Andrew Bolt speaking at the WIZO Victoria breakfast last week. Photo: Peter Haskin.
September 15, 2016, 12:00 am
Bolt strikes left and 18c
The reaction to Julie Bishop’s invitation to Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Australia will indicate how the old paradigm that “the left is the friend of the Jewish people and the right is its enemy” is no longer true, according to Andrew Bolt, guest speaker at a WIZO Victoria breakfast last Friday.
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