Executive Officer at Jewish Council of Australia
Sarah is a human rights lawyer. She is a Principal Managing Lawyer at the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service where she represents clients in the areas of police accountability, the rights of people in prison and coronial inquests into Aboriginal deaths in custody.. She is also a Lecturer at Melbourne University Law School. Sarah was awarded a John Monash Scholarship in 2019 and completed a Master of Laws at Harvard University focused on racism and mass incarceration. Sarah has written for publications including The Age, The Guardian, Crikey, The Conversation, Overland and academic journals.
NBC coverage of Sarah Schwartz’s comments about the recent antisemitic attacks
NBC News has a piece out titled “Australia struggles to address a surge in antisemitic attacks,” which includes Sarah Schwartz’s […]
Sarah Schwartz appears on ABC News Breakfast to talk about the continued antisemitic attacks in Australia
Sarah Schwartz recently appeared on ABC News Breakfast to talk about the continued antisemitic attacks in Australia. Click here to […]
Crikey and WSWS report on media’s misrepresentations of Sarah Schwartz
Crikey recently reported on the media’s misrepresentation of Sarah’s speech, and WSWS (World Socialist Web Site) reported on the Murdoch […]
Read Sarah Schwartz’s article in the Guardian and speech in full – when Peter Dutton and the Coalition use the Jewish community as political footballs it makes all of us less safe
Dear supporters, Today, our Executive Officer Sarah Schwartz published this article in the Guardian, about how Peter Dutton and the […]
Offensive smear campaign by the Murdoch Press against the Jewish Council’s anti-racism work and Sarah Schwartz
Dear supporters, Today marks 237 years since the commencement of the violent dispossession of First Nations peoples from this land. […]
Sarah Schwartz speaks to The Guardian about the recent antisemitic attacks in Sydney
Sarah Schwartz recently spoke to The Guardian about the recent antisemitic attacks in Sydney. An excerpt from Sarah’s response quoted […]
