EP90. We Shouldn’t Need Security Just to Be Jewish

A Jewish school, synagogue or community event should not need a security plan simply to open its doors. Yet for years, protection has become an unavoidable part of Jewish public life. Justin Kagan takes us inside Victoria’s Community Security Group: why it was founded, how its role has changed, and…

EP89. The Indian & Jewish Communities Standing Together

In this remarkable interview, I talk with 2 leaders of the Indian community, their experiences as an Australian minority, and how that shaped their understanding and standing with the Jewish community and Israel.

EP88 A Shameful Dereliction: Our Universities Failure to Protect Jewish Students

For Jewish students, university should be a place to learn, belong and find their feet as adults. AUJS' Jeremy Suss and Liat Granot describe how, after October 7, campuses became places where students hid their Jewish identity, were spat on, abused, and walked with fear. They explain how warnings t…

EP87 A Film Says Its A Kill Chart, Sarit Built The System To Save Lives

Sarit Zehavi (Col ret), one of the architects of the IDF’s civilian-warning and collateral-damage procedures, delivers a powerful rebuttal to the documentary Naza. She argues that the filmmakers fundamentally misrepresented the meaning of a “collateral damage estimate”. It is not an authorisation t…

EP86. THREE WARS, ONE DANGEROUS WORLD PART 3: Is the West winning or losing?

In this concluding episode with Colonel (ret) and former Defence Materiel Minister Mike Kelly, we examine how the wars reshaping our world are not isolated conflicts: they are fronts in a widening contest between democratic societies and an increasingly coordinated axis of autocracy. We discuss Ukr…

EP85. 3 Wars Part 2 with Mike Kelly - America Owns the Skies but Iran Owns the Clock

In Part Two of One Dangerous World, Three Wars, Colonel (Ret.) and former Defence Materiel Minister Dr Mike Kelly strips away the propaganda surrounding the US–Iran war. From the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s surviving nuclear ambitions to $4 million missiles chasing $50,000 drones, Kelly exposes a b…

EP 84. Three Wars , One Dangerous New World: Part One

In the opening episode of the three-part podcast triptych Three Wars, One Dangerous New World, Mike Kelly draws on his extraordinary experience as a soldier, strategist, parliamentarian and national-security adviser to expose the larger war hiding behind the daily headlines. He argues that China, R…

EP83. How Did We Get Here? Henry Ergas on the World After 7 October

In this powerful address and Q&A, historian and The Australian columnist Henry Ergas reaches back through his own Sephardic family history, the Holocaust and Hannah Arendt to ask two urgent questions: how did Australia get here, and how do we get out of it? His central warning is unsettling: the er…

EP82. After the War: Can Israel Change Itself?

Israel has demonstrated that it can strike its enemies, but can it shape what comes next? In a wide-ranging and unusually candid conversation, former IDF spokesman Peter Lerner examines the violent settler rampages in the West Bank and a government he says has “empowered extremism”; the failure to …

EP81. Into the Arena: Mikaela Stafrace on Service, Politics and Hope

Why would a successful lawyer, mother and long-time advocate for Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation choose now to enter politics and contest one of Victoria's most politically and emotionally charged electorates? Behind The Headlines sits down with Labor candidate for Caulfield Mikaela Stafrace for…