The National Catholic Education Commission has heralded the Albanese Government’s announcement of an Antisemitism Education Taskforce as an important and necessary step to end the scourge of antisemitism and hate-based rhetoric and action in our society.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the taskforce yesterday, to be led by David Gonski.
NCEC executive director Jacinta Collins said “the taskforce is an important national recognition of the power of education to shape the national consciousness”.
“Our children and young people are turning to their teachers and their schools for truth,” Ms Collins said.
“In the age of 24-hour news cycles, click-bait and social media reporting, it is often in the classroom that our students are given the tools to critically interrogate what happens in the word.”
Catholic education has long worked alongside Mr Gonski to inform an education system that offers the best for all Australians.
“Catholic education has a rich history of inter-faith dialogue and curriculum and pastoral programs that celebrate the inherent dignity of the human person,” Ms Collins said.
“We look forward to working with the Government and school sectors of all faith traditions to ensure the initiatives identified by the taskforce can be rolled out with the urgency that tragic events such as Sunday and the increasing inertia toward hate and antisemitism demand.”
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