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25 January 2025

9:00 AM

25 January 2025

9:00 AM

As the sun rises on national Australia Day celebrations, it will hardly dispel the long shadow of intolerance cast by a spate of brazen attacks on Jewish places of worship and property – including a childcare centre in Sydney’s east. Hatred such as this, directed at members of one Australian community by members of other communities, threatens to tear at the heart of our secular liberal democracy.

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Peter Kurti is Director of the Culture, Prosperity & Civil Society program at the Centre for Independent Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Australia.

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