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Rebecca Tabakoff says Jewish parents in Sydney are scared to send their children to school because of rising antisemitism.

‘We don’t know where it’ll come from next’: Jews living in fear

Sydney parent Rebecca Tabakoff is “on high alert about everything” after the spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney.

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speaking at the Menzies Research Centre on Friday.

Albanese making the same mistake as Keating: Dutton

Peter Dutton has likened the Albanese government’s priorities to “the failed social experiment” that drove Paul Keating’s ejection from office.

‘Devil you know or one you don’t want to’: The fight for Sydney’s west

Multicultural communities are angry at Labor’s response to Israel’s military action in Gaza, but independents face an uphill battle to unseat two senior Labor MPs in Sydney’s west.

Yesterday

Paul Bassat says the government should have acted more quickly to stamp out antisemitism.

‘Out of control’: Australian Jews express anger and alarm

Prominent Jewish community members blamed the PM for not acting faster to quell the rise in antisemitism after the discovery of an explosives-laden caravan.

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Van find a ‘disturbing escalation’, but no hike to terror risk: ASIO

Director-general of security Mike Burgess says the discovery of explosives and antisemitic notes in a caravan near Sydney does not warrant raising the nation’s threat level. Anthony Albanese says the perpetrators will be hunted down.

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This Month

Police executed a search warrant on a property located on Derriwong Road, Dural.

Explosives in Dural a potential ‘mass casualty’ antisemitic attack

The discovery of explosives with indications they might be used in an antisemitic attack is an ‘escalation’ of earlier incidents.

Officials say scrutiny of the financial management of universities is legitimate, but a witch-hunt on vice chancellor pay or staff underpayments is unwarranted.

Universities warn against ‘witch-hunt’ governance inquiry

The Labor-dominated committee will focus on financial management, but officials are worried about knee-jerk responses to tension about vice-chancellors’ pay and wage theft.

Heather Ruddock, the wife of former Attorney General Phillip Ruddock, announces split with Liberals and support for independent

Liberal stalwart’s wife defects over ‘incredible disconnect’ within party

Heather Ruddock has quit the Liberal Party and endorsed the community independent candidate taking on Liberal MP Julian Leeser in the Sydney seat of Berowra.

Mental Health Minister Rose Jackson urged staff not to resign after securing a path to arbitration.

Arbitration won’t change psychiatrists’ resignation plans: union

The workplace umpire’s urgent intervention has failed to stop the threat of a mass exit of doctors that could deplete the NSW hospitals’ workforce by a third.

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