Sue Lines to attend Auschwitz memorial
Senate President Sue Lines, who has previously accused Israel of the “crime of apartheid”, will represent Australia at an event marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, Sky News can reveal. A commemoration held next week in Poland will mark eight decades since the remaining 7,000 prisoners held at Auschwitz were freed, on January 27, 1945. Sky News understands Sue Lines has been chosen to lead Australia’s delegation, which also includes Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and Jewish-Australian community leaders.
Australia’s representation at the historic commemoration is significantly less senior than other foreign dignitaries – including King Charles III and the Presidents of Italy and Germany. In a speech to the senate in February 2022, before the last election, Senator Lines quoted an Amnesty International report in the senate, which “confirms that Israeli policies against Palestinians fit the definition of the international crime of apartheid”. “Amnesty International is calling on Israel to dismantle this cruel system, and the international community must pressure it to do so,” she said at the time. It’s understood the Department of Foreign Affairs extended an invitation to the Governor-General Sam Mostyn to attend, but she was not available.
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