The Australian Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, a son of a Holocaust survivor mother and the first Jewish parliamentarian to hold such high office, delivered the government’s budget speech before the country’s media and received prior advice from his father Harry, a surgeon, to drink plenty of tea, honey and ginger. The Australian and Israeli treasurers signed a new taxation agreement that will allow the already healthy trade and investment exchange between the two countries to grow and to benefit both nations in the future. Jewish voters in the Melbourne Federal electoral seat of Macnamara, the seat with the largest number of Jewish voters in Australia, were outraged over a FB post by an aid to the Greens Party’s candidate in that seat, that claimed that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. Mt Scopus College, the largest Jewish school in Australia revealed that they are investigating the feasibility of moving from their Burwood campus, currently far from Melbourne’s Jewish community, to its centre in Caulfield, if the Caulfield Hospital rebuilds its facilities within a smaller area of its current extensive grounds and if the school’s current neighbour Deakin University buys the Burwood campus, which the school has occupied over the past 70 years. The Jewish Community Council of Victoria (JCCV) finally and unreservedly apologised to the Jewish LGBTIQ+ advocacy and support group Aleph–Melbourne, for rejecting their application to become a member of the Victorian Jewish community’s roof body 20 years ago. Beginning this week FB will ban the posting of white supremacy materials that promote race-hate, to its FB and Instagram sites and whilst the Executive Council of Australian Jews welcomed the move, they stated that a similar ban should apply to such postings from extreme Islamic and leftist groups, including those that disguise their anti-Semitism as hatred of Israel.
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