Antisemitism: trinity of envoys clouds contest for social cohesion

The Special Envoy, Jillian Segal’s, plan to combat antisemitism has sparked significant media attention since its release on 10 July 2025. The responses either contested the proposals in the plan or called for her to step down, especially amidst the revelation that her husband had made a $50,000 donation to the right-wing Advance Australia.

However, these media responses to Jillian Segal’s plan were somewhat predictable. This is because, since mid-2024, the Albanese government’s approach to appoint three separate envoys for antisemitism, Islamophobia and social cohesion has overlooked the interconnected challenges that Jewish and Muslim communities and many others face together.

In doing so, the Albanese government has exacerbated cultural differences and created a contest of recognition, inadvertently framing one group’s suffering as more deserving of attention than another in Australia.

Separate envoy inflames community division

The horrific Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the subsequent invasion and killing of over 58,000 people, including women and children, in Gaza by the Israel Defence Forces, has led to a significant increase in the incidence of antisemitism and Islamophobia across Australia.

As per Jillian Segal’s plan, antisemitic incidents increased by 316% from October 2023 to September 2024. Similarly, the Islamophobia Register Australia has recorded 309 in-person Islamophobic incidents in 2024 and noted the alarming ‘sharp rise in online hostility’ towards Muslims, especially women and girls, in Australia.

In response, the Albanese government has appointed three special envoys: Jillian Segal on 9 July 2024, Peter Khalil MP as Special Envoy for Social Cohesion on 29 July 2024, and Aftab Malik as Special Envoy to combat Islamophobia on 30 September 2024.

Accordingly, these envoys are expected to produce separate reports for government consideration.

https://michaelwest.com.au/a-trinity-of-envoys-in-the-contest-for-social-cohesion/

Theft and money laundering

Eye-watering cost to negotiate Victorian Indigenous treaty revealed amid government push to expand powers of state Voice

It has been uncovered that the Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan governments have spent a combined sum of $382 million over the last ten years on Indigenous treaty negotiations.

The Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan Labor governments have invested almost $400 million on negotiating a treaty with Indigenous Australians, with experts warning the costs could continue to mount.

The Victorian government’s Yoorrook Justice truth telling inquiry handed down its final report in early July after four years of proceedings and claimed the state had been illegally occupied and that Victoria’s First Peoples had been subjected to genocide.

The commission also made 100 wide-ranging recommendations to the Victorian government including providing Indigenous Australians with tax relief, financial reparations and called on the state to finalise a treaty agreement.

The treaty, which was previously in negotiation stages is now set to progress to parliament, with Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan and the state’s First People’s Assembly confirming that legislation to pass the agreement would be tabled after the winter break.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/eyewatering-cost-to-negotiate-victorian-indigenous-treaty-revealed-amid-government-push-to-expand-powers-of-state-voice/news-story/fba18c5b7e2367ca556d7698c1785c20

Ready Steady Cook host Peter Everett faces court after being charged with sexually touching teenage boy

Peter Everett fronted court on Saturday, facing charges of sexually touching a teenage boy without consent.

The former Ready Steady Cook host appeared at Sydney's Parramatta Court this weekend, accused of sexually touching the 16-year-old Central Coast boy in Toukley, NSW, on Friday.

Everett is understood to have spent Friday night behind bars before facing court the following day.

The TV star pleaded 'not guilty' to the charges and vehemently denied the allegations when approached by Channel Nine News on Saturday.

Everett is expected to return to court in September.

The television personality has in recent years faced tough times.

He was unceremoniously sacked from Ready Steady Cook over the phone in 2011, after transforming the show during his five years as host.

In 2022, Everett revealed he was selling off his possessions just 'to survive' after a tough few years during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Everett, who regularly appears at food festivals across the country, told 4BC Afternoons host Rob McKnight he'd 'lost his livelihood' because of the lockdowns.

'There's been a lot of sales on my behalf. I'm selling anything - not down to the garage sale yet - but I've been selling off a lot of things,' Everett said.

'It really hasn't been an easy time. It hasn't. The entertainment industry, a lot of my friends, far less fortunate than I, have had it really, really bad.'

Everett joined Ready Steady Cook in 2006, replacing Nick Stratford as host.

He was dumped from the show in 2011, saying at the time he was 'disappointed' to have been fired over the phone just before heading overseas on holiday.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14944509/Ready-Steady-Cook-host-Peter-Everett-charges.html

Coudenhove-Kalergi plan

==How Albanese's 1.2million housing policy failure and record immigration has created a new category of Aussies with nowhere to go

Albanese government 'irresponsible' ==

Doctors in share houses, nurses living in cars

Thousands of women and children left homeless

Australia's housing emergency is now so dire nurses are living in cars while thousands of mothers and their children are sleeping rough or crammed into crisis accommodation with no path out.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promised to fix the housing crisis but Australia today is home to some of the most expensive real estate in the world, with near record low rentals available and the worst levels of homelessness in living memory.

Recent data by Homelessness Australia reveals the number of people accessing their services each month has grown by 10 per cent since the Albanese government came into power in May 2022. The situation is even more dire for women and girls, with an increase of 14 per cent.

But while women and children go without a roof over their heads, immigration is booming, which experts say is putting unprecedented strain on the local property market.

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show in the year to May, 1.1million permanent and long-term arrivals hit Australian shores, including international students and skilled workers.

In cities soaking up the bulk of the arrivals like Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and increasingly Brisbane, the competition for rentals is fierce, sending rents and house prices soaring.

Australian Population Research Institute president Bob Birrell blamed the housing crisis on record overseas migration, which meant working Australians were being pushed out of the market, unable to buy or rent.

'The Albanese government is completely irresponsible on this issue,' he said.

'They have neglected it ever since they got back into power in 2022, they've just let immigration rip.

'We've had enormous levels of migrants, which is just unprecedented, and irresponsible in the context of the housing crisis.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14931061/Albanese-1-2million-housing-failure-immigration.html