Kristina Keneally 2017. Keneally has contributed to "The Guardian Australia" since December 2014 on a range of politico-social issues such as religion in politics, same sex marriage and asylum seeking. In November 2017, Keneally was preselected by federal Labor as their candidate for the Bennelong by-election on 16 December. Despite picking up a five percent two-party swing, she lost to the previous incumbent and Liberal candidate John Alexander. On 30 January 2018, the Labor Party announced that Keneally would fill the vacant New South Wales seat in the Senate left by the previous Senator, Sam Dastyari, who formally resigned earlier that month
Emilie Schindler Emilie Schindler Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl; 22 October 1907 – 5 October 2001) was a Sudeten German-born woman who, with her husband Oskar Schindler, helped to save the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis. She was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Israel's Yad Vashem in 1994. She was born Emilie Pelzl in the village of Alt Moletein, (alternate spelling: Old Moletin, in Czech: Starý Moletín, today: Maletín) Austria-Hungary (now in the Czech Republic), to Sudeten German farmers Josef and Marie Pelzl.