Australia’s peak Jewish body has alleged preacher Wissam Haddad defamed its community in sermons containing almost 40 defamatory imputations, including that Jews were ‘cowards, liars and schemers’.
Police have arrested a teenager as they investigate a threat to a newly opened Sydney mosque that vowed to ‘christ church 2.0 this joint’ just as Australian Muslims prepared for the holy month of Ramadan.
Michelle Rowland has demanded the corporate regulator fund a liquidation probe into ‘sharia-compliant’ developer Qartaba.
A prominent sheik has claimed there was a ‘real possibility’ that Australia’s violent wave of anti-Semitism had ‘likely been manufactured’ by Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad.
The Greens have cancelled a free community lunch in Prahran, days after hiring an anti-Israel comedian to host its new candidate in Melbourne’s largest Jewish electorate.
Tony Burke has invoked his pre-election citizenship blitz, declaring Peter Dutton is ‘getting angry about people making a pledge of commitment to Australia’.
Tony Burke has been accused of concocting a citizenship backlog by western Sydney mayors and the Coalition, who claim Labor has engineered an industrial-scale ‘vote-buying citizenship tactic’.
The NSW government has accused the state Liberals of ‘teaming up’ with the Greens to weaken its hate-speech reforms, but the opposition has hit back, saying Labor rejected its raft of stronger measures.
The NSW government has announced the rollout of a second phase of its housing and planning reforms, spruiking its new ‘low and mid-rise’ policy it hopes will deliver more than 100,000 homes.
Weeks after the Hamas massacre, psychiatrist Jackie Rakov sent the government a dossier detailing pro-Hamas sentiment among fellow doctors – and heard nothing back.
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