Thursday, 17 August 2023

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:42): (358) My constituency question today is for the Minister for Higher Education, and I refer to a survey of 563 students by the Zionist Federation of Australia released recently that found 56 per cent had experienced antisemitism at university, while 28 per cent reported their teachers had ignored or engaged in antisemitic behaviour, and 66 per cent of the respondents who attended Melbourne University reported experiences of antisemitism, as did 57 per cent from Monash and 48 per cent from Deakin. So I am asking the Minister for Higher Education what action she will take to fight antisemitism in our universities. Specifically, the organisation is seeking a meeting with Labor Party members. They want to set up a meeting, a briefing, and I ask: will you set up such a briefing for Labor Party members, who appear not to quite understand how significant this antisemitic behaviour is?