Alex Dafner: The Seat of Mc Millan will be renamed Monash...Yiddish report 15.4.2018

Listen to our unique weekly Yiddish report with SBS correspondent Alex Dafner...Find out the latest:The Jewish community welcomed the Australian Electoral Commissions announcement that the current Federal Victorian Gippsland seat of Mc Millan will be renamed Monash, after the great Jewish Australian WWI General and engineer Sir Joh Monash, whom campaigners, including former deputy PM Tim Fischer want to be raised to the rank of Field Marshall in this the 100th year after the end of WWI and on the occasion of the opening of the Sir John Monash Centre at the Villers-Bretonneux battlefields on ANZAC Day 2018.

General Sir John Monash (1865-1931), officer of the Australian 3rd Division, at his headquarters in Glisy, Villers-Bretonneux, France, end First World War. Source: Robert Hunt Library