{"id":868663,"date":"2026-08-26T05:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868663\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T05:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:06:11","slug":"australia-news-live-rba-interest-rate-rise-considered-amid-inflation-figures-luke-gosling-steps-aside-dolly-parton-tributes-pour-in-following-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/868663\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: RBA interest rate rise considered amid inflation figures; Luke Gosling steps aside; Dolly Parton tributes pour in following death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The granddaughter of Holocaust survivor and international best-selling author Eddie Jaku says he would be the \u201cmost haunted man on earth\u201d if he were alive to have seen the rise in antisemitism over the past three years, believing it would\u2019ve reminded him of his life in Nazi Germany before he fled for Australia.<\/p>\n

Eddie Jaku was born in Germany in 1920. He survived several concentration camps before his eventual rescue by US soldiers in June 1945. He had hidden in a forest after fleeing Auschwitz, and weighed only 28 kilograms. He published his hugely successful memoir The Happiest Man on Earth <\/a>in 2020, at age 100, and died in October 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"EddieEddie Jaku during a photo shoot in 2020. Louise Kennerley<\/p>\n

Danielle Jaku told the antisemitism royal commission today that her grandfather would be shocked by the level of polarisation in Australia, and the lack of leadership to \u201cswiftly address and repair it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe would not be the happiest man on earth, but he would be the most haunted man on earth,\u201d Jaku said. \u201cI think he\u2019d be thinking that the echoes of his life in 1930s Germany are so strong, and after surviving all of that, to come to Australia and become the happiest man on earth, I say that he would be devastated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jaku has now been excused from the hearing. It is now hearing from David Solsky, one of the organisers of the Bondi Beach paddle out that occurred in the days after the terror event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The granddaughter of Holocaust survivor and international best-selling author Eddie Jaku says he would be the \u201cmost haunted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-868663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}