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VIDEO: Candidates for Vic seat of Macnamara in the great debate

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Published: 8 April 2019

Last updated: 4 March 2024

The Australian Zionist Youth Council, AUJS and the Australian Jewish News hosted a debate on Sunday night between the three candidates for the new seat of Macnamara in the forthcoming federal election.

Josh Burns (ALP), Kate Ashmor (Lib) and Steph Hodgins-May (Greens), debated a broad range of subjects in Glen Eira Town Hall, Caulfield.

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Subjects discussed included security at Jewish schools, synagogue, Palestinian statehood, discrimination in schools on the basis of gender identity, pill testing, the inclusion of the far-right into mainstream politics, Medicare and mental health funding, climate change and the meaning of Zionism.

There was also a specific question directed at Steph Hodgins-May about an anti-Zionist social media post by a Greens staffer, which was reported in the media last week.

Photo: From left, Josh Burns, Steph Hodgins-May and Kate Ashmor

Videos and photo: Simon Morawetz

 

 

 
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