Constituency questions
Caulfield electorate
Mr SOUTHWICK (Caulfield) (12:49): (6326) My question is to the Premier. On the eve of Yom HaZikaron, where many soldiers in Israel have died defending their country, and just following Yom HaShoah, the remembrance of the Holocaust, we are seeing an increase in antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment. We have seen that in attacks on the candidates for Kooyong and Goldstein by these teal candidates showing antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiments. We have also seen that with Australasian Union of Jewish Students students, many of whom live in my constituency of Caulfield. The Melbourne University student union attacked these AUJS students. They demonised many of those students. They called for the bringing back of boycott, divestment and sanctions, and they have left many of those students on campus feeling very uncomfortable and very unsafe. The Liberal Party have called for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism to be adopted, and we would ask the Premier to follow suit and call for the IHRA definition to be adopted.