Holocaust Memory Doesn’t Belong to Left or Right, Attorney-General Says

Australia’s Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has condemned the politicalisation of the Holocaust as he spoke at the commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus at the Federal Parliament in Canberra, Australia on March 30, 2023. Martin Ollman/Getty Images

Australia’s Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has called for all sides of politics to refrain from making the Holocaust about their own causes.

His comments come as he joined Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism in Australia, Jillian Segal, at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the freeing of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Poland.