Australia news live: adopting antisemitism definition would be ‘disaster’, says author who helped draft it; second blaze at Sydney childcare chain

<p>Kenneth Stern, the director of the US-based Bard Center for the Study of Hate, has responded to Australia considering the adoption of a working definition of antisemitism. Follow today’s news live</p><p>Authorities are appealing for information after a childcare centre in Sydney’s west caught fire in the early hours of Monday morning.</p><p>The ABC reports the blaze took place at a Play to Learn facility in Castle Hill. Another Play to Learn centre also caught fire in Sydney’s Turramurra on Friday. NSW police said:</p><p>About 1:30am today, emergency services were called to a business in Excelsior Avenue, Castle Hill, following reports of a fire. NSW Fire and Rescue are on scene and have extinguished the blaze. There has been minor damage caused to the building.</p><p>This level of experimentation with our endangered koalas is cruel, was a catastrophic failure and should not have happened. The control settings around this translocation experiment were obviously fundamentally flawed and I don’t think the public would find this level of experimentation with our endangered koalas at all acceptable.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/jul/14/australia-news-live-anthony-albanese-china-nsw-koala-deaths-greens-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>