(2025) What Australia Must Do Now to Combat Antisemitism

The Middle East

Article published on-line in the Australian Financial Review on 15 December and inprint on 17 December 2025, p. 31, https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/what-australia-must-do-now-to-confront-antisemitism-20251215-p5nnpb Australians are proud of our social cohesion, respect for each other, and multiculturalism. No longer are Jews and Catholics banned from certain clubs and workplaces as they were fifty years ago. As for Muslims and Hindus, whatever our…

Why Palestinian Recognition is Both Inevitable and Fraught

The Middle East

Australian public opinion in favour of recognition of a state of Palestine is clear. Continuing opposition could merely hasten a form of recognition that would be tantamount to an empty gesture. What is now required is for those genuinely seeking a two-state solution, that enables Palestinians and Israelis to live side-by-side in peace, is to provide a robust, realist edge to what Foreign Minister Wong calls the “matter of when, not if” decision.