Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton have spoken out against rising anti-Semitism during speeches in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Mr Albanese and Mr Dutton attended the official opening of the new Melbourne Holocaust Museum in Elsternwick following a three-year construction rebuild.
The Prime Minister said it was "an honour as great as it is solemn" to open the facility, noting "it's importance cannot be overstated, especially right now".
"This museum stands because we must never forget the Holocaust. Not the scale of it, not the depths of its cruelty," Mr Albanese said in his address.
"Within its walls, quiet dignity co-exists with awful truths. Each one of them giving meaning to the words we keep repeating – never again."
Mr Albanese said Australia will always denounce and utterly reject anti-Semitism, which he noted has been on the rise since the atrocities committed by Hamas last month.
"Since the atrocities of the terrorist action by Hamas on October 7, Jewish Australians have been bearing a pain you should never have had to bear again," he said.
"And you are feeling fear. Anxious at the long shadows of the past have crept into the present. That should not be happening in a land that offered refuge then, and embraces you now.
"As the conflict continues, anti-Semitism is on the rise but we will not let it find as much as a foothold here. Australia will always denounce it and reject it utterly, just as we do all forms of racism and prejudice."
Mr Albanese added his government will continue to make clear that "there is no place in Australia for symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust".
"And there is no place for those who seek to profit from the trade in these evil symbols, or use them to promote their hatred," he said.
"We owe it to our multicultural society, our Jewish community and our survivors."
Mr Dutton in his speech said the opening of the museum was "even more poignant and pertinent" in the context of rising anti-Semitism and the terrorist acts of Hamas.
"The opening of this museum, of course, has been very much anticipated. We knew this event would be a profound moment, an emotional moment," he said.
"But all the more so now. We stand here today in the wake of the barbarity visited upon Israel on the 7th of October.
"We stand here today having been filled through our television screens of the hate-fuelled mobs marching through major democratic cities, calling for the slaughter of Jews.
"We stand here today in the aftermath of obscene and unfathomable acts of anti-Semitism on our own soil.
"In the context of these events, the opening of this museum today is even more poignant and pertinent. We're witnessing an unmasking and resurgence of the same hateful thoughts and behaviours which led to the Holocaust."
The museum, which was established by Holocaust survivors in 1984, contains 20,000 artefacts and more than 1,500 survivor testimonies.
A permanent exhibition called Everybody Had a Name has been launched to provide a Melbourne perspective of the six million lives which were lost during the Holocaust.
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