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The Albanese government will take its attempts to combat antisemitism into the nation’s kindergartens and childcare centres as well as schools and universities.
A new antisemitism education taskforce, led by eminent expert David Gonski, was announced by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday as part of the wide-ranging response to the massacre of Jewish Australians at Bondi Beach on Sunday.
Special envoy to combat antisemitism, Jillian Segal, wants children across Australia taught about the Holocaust. Credit: Dylan Coker
Gonski, best known for helming two separate reports into school funding for the Gillard and Turnbull governments, has been given 12 months to bring together state education ministries, universities, tertiary education authorities, private and religious schools and the Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority, the agency with oversight of the pre-school sector, to develop a response.
Jillian Segal, Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, will also work on the reform after calling for a nationally consistent approach to teaching students about the ancient hatred in her plan to combat antisemitism.
In her report, which was handed to the government in July, Segal wanted an understanding of Nazi Germany’s campaign of genocide against European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s taught in all Australian schools, “including an understanding of the Holocaust as a major case study of where unchecked antisemitism can lead”.
“Educators and public servants must have access to training to recognise and address antisemitism in classrooms and public settings,” the special envoy wrote.
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