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Former Labor leader Bill Shorten, now vice-chancellor of the University of Canberra, says he was shocked by testimony delivered to Australia's royal commission on antisemitism. As The Guardian tells it, Shorten said the evidence from the university sector described an Australia he did not recognise, and argued that conduct such as covering faces to avoid identification and confronting staff at their individual offices had stopped being legitimate protest. He called it bullying, intimidation, and thuggery, insisting that no cause, however righteous its supporters believe it to be, gives anyone the right to make another person's life fearful.

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