Royal Commission into sexual abuse of children at religious institutions & schools
Welcomed by Jewish community leaders.
Australian Events
Bali bombing. 202 people including 88 Australians killed
Melbourne plastic surgeon Graeme Southwick present, helped save lives.
Asher Joel knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for arranging tours of Australia
Also made Knight of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in 1974. Also knighted by the Pope
WWI commences when the Austro-Hungarian Empire declares war on Serbia.
13 per cent of the Jewish community enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces, compared to 9.2 per cent of the general population.
Eureka Stockade, Ballarat stormed by troops. Teddy Thonen, a German Jew was the first of 24 miners killed defending the stockade.
Earlier Manastra Flatow, another German Jew, was one of those arrested in connection with the burning of the Eureka Hotel.
Jacob Montefiore is among the 11 Commissioners who establish the settlement of Adelaide.
One of the venture’s backers is Sir Moses Montefiore.
Solomon Levey independently finances Thomas Peel’s private venture, the Swan River (free-immigrant) Colony. This eventually becomes the Colony of Western Australia.
Levey trusted Peel as he was 2nd cousin of British P.M., Sir Robert Peel, and that Peel deigned to become the partner of a Jewish former convict. Levey paid dearly for this misjudgment.
Hobart, Tasmania is established as a penal colony at Sullivan’s Cove, Van Dieman’s Land. Of the orginal 270 convicts, 8 are Jewish.
Jewish convicts arrived from the then failing colony of Sorrento on Port Phillip Bay to Sullivans Cove – now the city of Hobart.