Thursday, 2 May 2024

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:50): (835) I am rising today to draw attention to the ongoing concern that I think many of us have, which I have raised in the chamber before, about the antisemitic behaviour that is occurring on some of our university campuses. The University of Melbourne camp is replete with very unsatisfactory written slogans and so forth, and certainly people I know who have been there have heard quite unsatisfactory discussion and verbal insults. The same I think is at risk at Monash with the camp commencing there. This is a hardline leftist group that is involved. Whatever the sympathies people may have with the Palestinian people, there is no excuse for the hardline antisemitic behaviour that is occurring on a number of our campuses and indeed internationally. We need to stand up, we need to be clear and we need to be strong. We cannot allow these hard-left activists with, it is now pretty clear, international connections and likely international money behind them to disturb our harmony in Victoria.