Sarah Schwartz

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.

  • Sarah Schwartz speaks to ABC about the recent attack on Allawah synagogue

    Sarah Schwartz recently spoke to ABC about the recent attack on Allawah synagogue. Click here to read the article.

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  • Sarah Schwartz appearance on The Briefing podcast

    Sarah Schwartz recently appeared on The Briefing podcast on an episode called “The politics of a Jewish synagogue fire attack: […]

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  • Sarah Schwartz appears on ABC Radio National to discuss the fallout from the arson attack on a Melbourne synagogue

    Sarah Schwartz recently appeared on ABC Radio National in a segment titled Need to address “festering racism” in Australia says […]

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  • Sarah Schwartz opinion piece in SMH: “Sydney Uni’s ‘enforced civility’ is an assault on free speech – and likely unlawful”

    Sarah Schwartz has recently had an opinion piece published in Sydney Morning Herald titled Sydney Uni’s ‘enforced civility’ is an […]

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  • Sarah Schwartz speaks to The Guardian about the firebombing of the Adass Israel synagogue

    Sarah Schwartz recently spoke to The Guardian for an article titled “Security at Australian synagogues stepped up as Netanyahu links […]

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  • Sarah Schwartz speaks to AFR about antisemitism in Australia

    Sarah Schwartz recently spoke to Australian Financial Review for a piece titled ‘We must rescue our society’: PM urged to […]

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