Jillian Segal’s office hand-picked candidate to assess controversial university antisemitism report card

Greg Craven, a former vice-chancellor of Australian Catholic University, chosen after no other bids made for the tender

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Australia’s antisemitism envoy hand-picked Greg Craven to lead her controversial university report card process after receiving no response from five firms approached during an open tender process.

Documents released under freedom of information laws showed Jillian Segal’s office initially approached three independent consulting firms and two law firms to potentially conduct the assessment of Australian universities and how well they were dealing with antisemitism on campus, but all of them declined to bid on the tender.