In March 2025, Universities Australia (UA) announced that all universities had agreed to adopt it’s divisive definition of antisemitism, modelled on the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. This drew widespread criticism from Jewish and Muslim organisations, human rights groups, civil society, and the NTEU for the politicisation of antisemitism to justify further constraints on speech, including new Federal legislation and the establishment of an Antisemitism Education Taskforce.
Universities should be places of critical inquiry, not political enforcement. The integrity of universities must be upheld. Anti-racism policies must not be used to suppress political speech or activism.