Victoria’s Jewish and Islamic faculties will get money to bolster safety, with the state authorities additionally giving group organisations funds to fight antisemitism and Islamophobia.
The federal government on Saturday introduced an $8 million funding to make sure communities really feel “protected, welcome and celebrated” with Jewish and Islamic faculties to share in $2 million to enhance safety.
Colleges can use the funding to put in CCTV cameras.Credit score: Paul Rovere
The state’s 27 unbiased Jewish and Islamic faculties will every get $20,000 to put in measures reminiscent of improved fencing, alarms and CCTV, and they’re going to additionally have the ability to declare prices for added safety.
Minister for Schooling Ben Carroll stated it could guarantee faculty communities may give attention to the well being, wellbeing and studying of their college students.
“It’s unacceptable that college students or workers really feel unsafe within the faculties the place they be taught, work and play,” he stated in an announcement.
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Jewish and Islamic communities will get $3 million every, with the cash for the Jewish group to go to the Jewish Neighborhood Council of Victoria, Zionism Victoria, Neighborhood Safety Group and the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.
The Islamic group will obtain funds by the Islamic Museum of Australia, Islamic Council of Victoria, Melbourne Grand Mosque, Board of Imams Victoria and the Australian Muslim Ladies’s Centre for Human Rights.
Multicultural Affairs Minister Ingrid Stitt stated antisemitism and Islamophobia had no place in Victoria.