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Australia's First Aboriginal & Northern Territorian to Win an Olympic Gold Medal.
Nova Peris became the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal as part of the Hockeyroos in Atlanta 1996 and the first Australian mother to win gold since 1956.
Peris uniquely represented Australia in two sports—hockey and athletics—at separate Olympics. She is the only person globally to reach back-to-back Summer Olympic finals in two sports and to win both Olympic and Commonwealth gold medals in different sports.
Australia's First Aboriginal Woman elected to Federal Parliament.
Since the mid-1990s, Nova Peris has been a strong advocate for Aboriginal people, visiting hundreds of communities to understand their challenges. Using her platform in Federal Parliament, she amplified the voices of those often unheard and made a profound, positive impact on young Aboriginal lives through both her words and actions.
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Mazel Tov, @yuvalraphael
Congratulations to Israel’s Yuval Raphael – YES she was #1 in the public vote across 13 countries! Though she came second overall, her impact was absolutely phenomenal.
Yuval, what a moment. What a voice. What resilience. Her song, “A New Day Will Rise,” was nothing short of breathtaking. Unbelievable.
She has come from the very pits of hell, a survivor of H@mas terror, and there she stood, alone on the world stage, rising from trauma into triumph. Among the glitz, the glamour, and the lights, she shone with the radiance of an angel to match her angelic voice.
For what she has endured to come out and sing with such strength, grace, and beauty, it is nothing short of extraordinary. It is a testament to the Jewish people: they love life, they fulfil life, and they will never be silenced. L’Chaim ✡️
Yuval, carried her people in her voice, and her enormous courage lit 💫 up the world 🌍
Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
#yuvalraphael #amyisraelchai💙🇮🇱 #eurovisión #L’Chaim
Larissa Waters, your comments are an absolute disgrace. To claim that “many Jews who don’t support genocide support the Greens” is not only ignorant, it’s disrespectfully deeply offensive and historically inaccurate.
Loud and CLEAR- NO Jew supports genocide. Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. The very word “genocide” was coined by a Jewish man, Raphael Lemkin, to describe the atrocities committed against his people. For you, a NOW leader in Australian politics, to weaponise that term for political point-scoring is a new low.
What’s happening in the Middle East is war. A war that began on October 7, when Hamas terrorists committed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
Women were raped. Babies were burned. Families were slaughtered in their homes. Over 1,200 people were murdered in the most gruesome, inhumane ways imaginable. That was an attempted genocide, and the people responsible celebrated it in the streets.
If you listen to Hamas you will hear them saying that they want to repeat October 7 again and again. The war is not genocide. It is a war against genocide. People who are truly against genocide support the defeat of Hamas.
Every civilian death in Gaza is a tragedy of war, not genocide. Have you conveniently forgotten there are still 58 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza - including women (young and elderly) and both Israeli and non-Israeli civilians.
Tragically only 24 of them remain alive. If you Larissa truly want peace, call for their release. Stand on the steps of Parliament and demand Hamas surrender. That’s how you END a war.
To suggest that Australian Jews “support” your party because they supposedly “oppose genocide” is a malicious distortion. The Greens have lost their moral compass. You do not speak for the Jewish community. You don’t even listen to them.
Your words, Larissa, dishonour Holocaust survivors, mock Jewish grief, and inflame division. The Greens are a disgrace to our Parliament. Australia deserves better than this vile rhetoric.
And I, for one, cannot wait to see your party crumble under the weight of its own hypocrisy. #endjewhatred
As a former Labor Senator, I couldn’t be more thrilled to see the return of a strong @australianlabor government with a majority under Prime Minister @albomp - This is a vote of confidence in fairness, inclusion, and policies that put Australians first.
I’m proud to have been part of the @better.australia campaign, a national movement to put the Greens last. Australians have had enough of a party that has become divisive, anti-Semitic, and openly hostile to our veterans, our war memorials, and the very values that define this country. The Greens have imported foreign conflicts into our streets, helping drive a 700% rise in antisemitism across Australia. Their contempt for The Australian flag and what it represents has been on full display.
The loss of Adam Bandt, the Greens leader and long-time MP for Melbourne marks a powerful repudiation of this politics of hate. His defeat is a great result for our democracy and for all Australians who believe in unity, decency, and truth.
As Co-Patron of @laborfriendsofisraelaustralia alongside @danielandrewsmp - I remain deeply committed to fighting the rising tide of antisemitism in Australia. I will continue working to educate our nation on the extraordinary history of the Jewish people, from their service in defending our freedoms, to their immense contributions in philanthropy, innovation, democracy, and to the very fabric of Australia’s Western values.
Labor stands for unity and truth, and I’m proud to play my part in upholding both. But, in the face of rising antisemitism, we have to do better this next term, possibly two terms. Just as we’ve stood with Ukraine, we must support Israel. She is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, fighting against the evils of H@mas, a listed terrorist organisation. Extremism undermines our democratic values and the safety of Jewish Australians, and is a threat to the very soul of our democracy.
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