AIJAC/Rambam Programs/2014

AIJAC/Rambam Programs/2014
Membership	• Paul Frayne • Kent Rowe • Mitchell Wilson • Jessica Malnersie • Tim Hammond • Adam Slonim • Kaila Murnain • Michael Vaughan • Greg Holland • Rose Butler Jackson • Michael Borowick • David Wroe • Joe Aston • Laura Jayes • Rowan Dean • Christopher Pyne • Michael Danby • David Feeney • Cameron Clyne • John Pataridis • Craig Kelly • John Alexander • Wyatt Roy • Anne Ruston • Penny Wong • Gai Brodtmann • Stephen Jones (Australian politician) • Bill Chalmers • Tim Watts • Tanya Plibersek
A junket "fact-finding trip" to Israel for a large number of selected Australian journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics.

The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC) arranges a large number of junkets "fact-finding trips" to Israel for selected journalists, politicians, political advisers, government officials, trade union officials, student leaders, and academics through its Rambam Israel Fellowship Program There are a number of associated programs doing very similar things, not all of them arranged by AIJAC, for example the Australia Israel Leadership Forum, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Journalists Mission, Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce and etc. For practical reasons, these programs are listed here under the heading Rambam Programs.

Participants

The participants are sent from several programs.

After the trip, Labor MP Tim Watts told how he:

was impressed by the objectivity of the Rambam program, which he said exposed him to a diverse range of views and the space to develop his own views on Israel without intrusion or interference.

while Penny Wong

cited Yad Vashem as a very moving highlight of her visit. She also said that, at Sderot, she was struck by the resilience and persistence of ordinary Israelis and the challenges of Israel's leaders having to juggle the work of government with managing a constant existential threat.

Australia Israel Labor Dialogue (AILD) December

• Paul Frayne (Office of Andrew Giles MHR)
• Kent Rowe (ALP Secretary NT)
• Mitchell Wilson (NSW ALP Organiser)
• Jessica Malnersie (President NSW Young Labor)
• Tim Hammond (barrister)
• Adam Slonim (AILD)
• Kaila Murnain (Asst Federal Secretary ALP NSW)
• Michael Vaughan (Office of Tanya Plibersek MHR)
• Greg Holland (ALP candidate, NSW state election)
• Rose Butler Jackson (Asst Secretary NSW ALP)
• Michael Borowick (AILD Chair & ACTU Asst. Secretary)

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies/AIJAC Journalists Mission to Israel

• David Wroe, Fairfax national security correspondent
• Joe Aston, Australian Financial Review columnist & Nine Network roving reporter
• Laura Jayes, Sky News
• Rowan Dean, The Spectator Australia editor
• and several unknown others.

Australia-UK-Israel Leadership Forum, July

Christopher Pyne, Education Minister

• Michael Danby, MP ALP
• David Feeney, MP ALP
• Others.

Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce

• Cameron Clyne, NAB
• John Pataridis, Optus
• + 30 business executives

AIJAC Rambam Israel Fellowship

• Craig Kelly, MP Hughes, NSW
• John Alexander, MP Bennelong, NSW
• Wyatt Roy, MP Longman, QLD
• Anne Ruston, SA Senator

AIJJAC Israel Rambam Study Tour, May

• Penny Wong, Lab Senate
• Gai Brodtmann, Lab MP
• Stephen Jones, Lab MP
• Dr Bill Chalmers, Lab MP
• Tim Watts, Lab MP

AIJAC, January

• Tanya Plibersek, Deputy Opposition Leader & Shadow Foreign Affairs

 

Known members

4 of the 30 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Gai Brodtmann	Australian Labor politician with close ties to the military-industrial complex.
Craig Kelly	Australian dissident MP; COVID-19/Resistance.
Kaila Murnain	Australian politician picked as a YGL 2018. In 2019 resigned in disgrace after revelations of party donations from a Chinese billionaire.
Penny Wong	Australian foreign minister

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