Constituency questions
Caulfield electorate
David SOUTHWICK (Caulfield) (14:43): (580) My question is to the Minister for Education. Yesterday I tabled a petition with nearly 1800 signatures calling for the minister to take action against rogue teachers and the Australian Education Union using the classroom to push their radical anti-Israel agenda to Victorian kids. Antisemitism has increased as much as 700 per cent since 7 October, yet we are still seeing some teachers at Victorian schools openly conspiring to manipulate Victorian children to teach them to hate Israel and create hostility towards the Jewish community. Teachers are so important, but these fringe-dwelling, hateful activists are a disgrace to this noble profession. Minister, off the back of my community’s petition, how will you keep my community safe and stop rogue teachers and the AEU from brainwashing kids in schools?