“We cannot remain silent. This is not who we are. This is not the Australia we represented,” the letter says.
“If we fail to investigate with a royal commission – now, honestly, rigorously, without fear, we risk investigating funerals once again,” Peris said.
“Come down off your high horse and stop trying to run for cover,” Fraser told Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
“If the Jewish community is calling for a royal commission then do the right thing by this community that has suffered enough.”
Solomon said: “This is something that comes naturally to those who wear the green and gold, is to take on feedback, to learn from it, to get better and to improve as a community.”
Other signees included Ian Thorpe, Grant Hackett, Lleyton Hewitt, Scott Pendlebury and Isaac Heeney
