Overview

• Jillian Segal’s 20-page plan urges adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism and allows funding cuts for universities, artists and broadcasters that fail to act
• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to consider the recommendations but has not committed to implementing them in full
• Education Minister Jason Clare confirmed the government will delay its decision pending the Islamophobia envoy’s August report and the Australian Human Rights Commission’s October review
• Labor MP Ed Husic and race discrimination commissioner Giridharan Sivaraman cautioned that funding threats and formalizing the IHRA definition could chill free expression
• Peak Jewish bodies such as the Executive Council of Australian Jewry back full adoption of the measures while free-speech advocates and some ministers call for a cautious approach