Reflections on Visiting Israel - Lessons for Australia

What can Australia learn from Israel?

This presentation will help you understand what lessons we can learn in Australia from Israel in order to build a strong, safe, secure and cohesive nation state.

All the challenges we face in Australia (and the west) are present in condensed and amplified form in Israel. How Israelis are facing these challenges has a great deal to teach us. These include:

• Security

• Terrorism

• Cohesion and diversity

• Demographics

• Religion and minority rights

Mark Leach has just spent nearly 3 weeks in Israel attending an international conference on national conservatism addressed by leading centre and centre right politicians, military strategists, philosophers, and theologians and then leading a group of nineteen non-Jewish Australians on a ten-day tour of the land. This tour included exploring the history of Judaism and Christianity in the land, and then a immersion in current Israeli society with all its complexities, as well as numerous private briefings from political and geopolitical strategists on the security and strategic reality.

You don't have to agree with all Mark's conclusions. You will however have been equipped and challenged to think more deeply about how we build a strong, safe, and secure Australia, from our historic ally, who is doing exactly that in the midst of

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