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Unity Grammar wins big at Robotics competition Bonnie Senior
Unity Grammar’s Stem Cells Y team. From left: Muhammad Hardan, Zain Khan, Abdul Rahmad Rifai, Hassan Raja, Ayeza Siddiqui, Haneefah Lawal, Daniya Syed, Amina Al-Said, Yasmina El-Bureeny and their coach.
STEM Cells Y team from Unity Grammar, A Muslim school in South West Sydney has been awarded the Virtual Trophy for Robot Design at the 2020 Australian Virtual Robotics Tournament held in June this year. Two Unity Grammar teams; STEM Cells X and STEM Cells Y received an invitation to participate in the inaugural 2020 Australian Virtual Robotics Tournament. The top 20 performing FIRST LEGO League robotics teams in Australia participated in this unique event in June 2020. The event included an all virtual platform where teams performed live robot runs from their school robotics workshop. These robot runs were refereed by experienced FIRST LEGO League referees from FIRST Australia. In addition to the robot runs, there was a judges’ presentation which was conducted via Zoom. Judges from around the world formed the judging panel from a variety of high-level organisations such as Google, LEGO Education, Disney, John Deere Automation, Macquarie University, and many more. The entire event was live-streamed by FIRST Australia on YouTube. Continued on page 11
Australia urged to end Shaoquett Moselmane: its anti-Palestine stance “Political lynching has Voting board for the resolution on Palestinian self determination by UNHRC passed on 22 June 2020 with 43:2 votes with two abstentions.
Zia Ahmad Australia is only one of the two countries, the other being Marshall Islands opposing UN resolutions condemning Israeli annexations plans for parts of the West Bank. Australia this week voted against UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) five resolutions for Palestinian self de-
termination, against Israeli settlements and settlers violence and on Israeli human-rights abuses in the Palestinian territories. Australia’s position could not be more out of step with world opinion since Israel’s annexation move, following US President Donald Trump’s “peace” plan, that has been universally condemned. Continued on page 26
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already commenced” Mohamed Ainullah NSW Muslim MP Shaoquett Moselmane has categorically denied any wrongdoing and has claimed that he is the target of political lynching. He was speaking at his first media conference on Monday 29 June 2020 after his house was raided by Australian Federal Police on Friday 26 June as part of an investigation into foreign interference into Australian political system. “The investigation is into certain other people, allegedly advancing the goals of a foreign Government, namely the Peoples Republic of China,” he said. “I am under no illusion that this is a serious investigation,” he said, while emphasising, “Let me tell you, I have done nothing wrong.” Mr Moselmane said that he is not a suspect in the AFP espionage investigation but
Mr Shaoquett Moselmane MP speaking at NSW Parliament on Monday 29 June. is taking leave from the parliament while the investigation takes place. He had earlier stated that his views on China and its handling of coronavirus had resulted in him being forced to resign as assistant president of the upper house. (See AMUST issue #175 June 2020 Witch-hunt of Shaoquett Moselmane condemned). Continued on page 19
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