Senator Lidia Thorpe defends controversial QUT symposium in anti-Semitism row
Firebrand independent senator Lidia Thorpe has defended a controversial Queensland University of Technology conference that featured a “Dutton’s Jew” cartoon and left a Jewish academic in tears.
Flip-flops on both sides of politics as hate laws and civil liberties clash
The battle to contain antisemitism in Australia finds both sides of politics embracing measures they would otherwise abhor.
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South Australia’s new senator-to-be is Leah Blyth who will replace the retiring Simon Birmingham
Retiring Senator Simon Birmingham gives his valedictory speech in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman She was elected as state president last year after ...
South Australia’s new senator-to-be is Leah Blyth who will replace the retiring Simon Birmingham
Senator Antic last year defeated former cabinet minister and moderate Anne Ruston in a preselection ballot to take the top spot on the party’s Senate ticket for the next election, with Senator Ruston ...
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Senator Lidia Thorpe defends controversial QUT symposium in anti-Semitism row
Senator Thorpe, appearing at an inquiry into anti-Semitism at Australian universities ... complying with the university’s 2019 freedom of speech policy. “I did not because at that point ...