Attorney general responded in Poland to criticism from opposition leader over Penny Wong’s visit to Auschwitz commemoration
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Attempts to politicise antisemitism in Australia are “grotesque”, the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has said in a swipe at Peter Dutton while visiting Poland for a Holocaust commemoration.
It came as both major parties pledged millions of dollars to upgrading Holocaust memorials and education facilities in Australia, to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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