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“The Segal motion from the Bronte Waverley branch stated that “anti-Semitism, indeed all hate speech, is abhorrent” but objected to the report’s recommendations to enforce accountability on universities and public broad­casters, including termination of funding.
The central problem, according to the motion, “is that the definition of anti-Semitism in the Special Envoy’s Report is contested. The concern is that legitimate criticism of the actions of the ­Israeli government will be conflated with anti-Semitism”.The ABC and SBS already have exacting standards covering their broadcasts. The powers suggested by the Special Envoy would imperil the independence of Australia’s public broadcasters and their reputation for impartiality.”
The branch noted “the strong representations of ABC Friends and ABC Alumni” as well as the national Tertiary Education Union.
The motion pointed to an article by ABC Friends national president Cassandra Parkinson, who said she read the Segal report “as a plan to crack down on Australia’s intellectual and cultural life … that far exceeded the envoy’s terms of reference and if implemented, would have bleak consequences for our country”.
The original motion called upon the federal government to “react to” the Segal report in its entirety but this was a typographical error and amended to say “reject”.
An attempt to dilute the motion, by noting concerns in relation to “certain” recommendations, rather than the entire report, and that the powers suggested by Segal “may” imperil the ABC’s independence, was voted down.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Peter Wertheim called the motion “a betrayal of Jewish Australians”.
“It’s one thing to have an issue with particular aspects of the Special Envoy’s action plan, but to call upon the federal government to reject the plan ‘in its entirety’ is symptomatic of the catastrophic moral failure of the centre left in Australia to stand up against extremism and racism in its own ranks,” he said.
“The motion passed by the ALP’s federal electoral council in the seat with the nation’s highest percentage of Jewish voters is a betrayal of Jewish Australians who have become the targets of vicious acts of discrimination, hostility and violence. It sends a message that the council either denies that anti-Semitism is a singular problem that requires a bespoke response, or does not consider anti-Semitism to warrant concern.”
The Australian has sought comment from Mr Collins and Ms Dovey.
A Wentworth FEC Labor official who declined to be identified said: “This is a motion that comes up from the branches. It’s not a motion the FEC has developed.”
I’m pretty sure there’ll be a whole raft of new resolutions that will be coming up, particularly in the light that the Prime Minister has already acted on a number of resolutions already contained in the report, so I’m pretty sure there will be an opportunity to revisit that in the new year as soon as we’ve reconvened,” they said.
The Wentworth FEC last year called for Israel to be sanctioned by the federal government and suspended from the UN."

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Dec 19^th, 2025 at 6:12pm:

Does Michael Collins have a father, why isn't his father mentioned.

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LOL. The ABC promoted the anti-Israel marches, and deliberately ignored obvious links to Hamas and other Islamic hate groups, like the one who were down at Sydney chanting where's the Jews. But if any protest had even a whiff of criticism of Islam, they were basically painted as Nazis and the ABC did exposes on the alleged links and warned readers not to attend.

The ABC has been fuelling the hatred of Jews that lead to the massacre. Our tax dollars are funding the erosion of the most basic human rights in Australia, including the right to life and liberty.

All media links with news could be banned for over 16 year olds.
Ozpol will be shut down. Bobby will shut up.

freediver wrote on Dec 20^th, 2025 at 10:23am:


Biased narrative as usual.

The ABC was recently chastised for sacking Muslim journalist Anoinette Lattouf:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-29/antoinette-lattouf-sacking-exposed-power-...

..governments, militaries, and lobby groups try to stop the media telling stories, and I wondered if news audiences would like major media outlets to talk about it more:

"They might be shocked to learn about the orchestrated bullying that goes on, which is designed to discourage editors and journalists from reporting on certain topics and framing stories in certain ways, even speaking to certain people," the piece said.

"Would it improve media literacy if the media wrote about these issues openly and regularly?"

Then, three days later, we heard relevant news.

On Wednesday, the Federal Court ruled that the ABC had unlawfully sacked journalist Antoinette Lattouf, in December 2023, for reasons including that she held political opinions opposing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza.


Oh ... and as to your concerns re protection of the right to life and liberty: the latter includes freedom from entrenched systemic disadvantge and macro-economic dysfunction which is locking an entire generation out of home owner-ship in Oz.    The ABC won't touch the issue. 

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 20^th, 2025 at 10:46am:


It is not biased to point out the ABC's bias. The court case does not change any of the facts about what the ABC has been publishing.

freediver wrote on Dec 20^th, 2025 at 12:22pm:


FD on bias.....

So says the blind RW ideologue, who can't recognize the ABC's pro Israel bias, which a judge had to point out to them.   

Too funny.....

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Dec 20^th, 2025 at 1:07pm:


While Jews outside the State of Israel residing in other Countries flaunt insignia of the State of Israel and identify with it, nut cases will fail to see any distinction between them as representatives and supporters of that rogue State, and "Semitism" or your new fangled word.