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The Melbourne Holocaust Museum is sounding the alarm over a surge in antisemitic hate, urging Australia to adopt a national Holocaust education standard. Chief executive Breann Fallon will testify at a royal commission, revealing how hateful online attacks—spiking after events like the Bondi terror attack—have shattered staff morale and ballooned security costs from $19,000 to over $290,000. While temporary support follows tragedies, the backlash soon returns, fiercer than before. Fallon argues that education, storytelling, and dialogue are vital to dismantling hate—rooted in the museum’s own founding by survivors seeking refuge. With volunteers broken by online abuse and systemic gaps in funding and consistency, the museum calls on the whole community to step up, using proven dialogue programs to build empathy and safety for all.

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