Jerry Lissing
Jerry is a director of the ACT Jewish Centre, Co-Chair of the National Holocaust and Education Centre Committee, and a postgraduate in Strategy and Policy (UNSW@ADFA).
He has had over 35 years of experience managing large service operations in Venue and Facility Management including The Sydney Opera House; Stadium Australia and Fairmont Resort. He has also worked with Defence, managing complex procurement programmes and Base Operations. He was also a senior business consultant with Minter Ellison Lawyers and now is a Director of the Consulting Company AgriFarmacy Pty Ltd.
Jerry has been a director of several major organisations including being a Board Member of the South Sydney Rabbitohs and Sydney Kings.
Originally a schoolteacher, Jerry has a deep interest in global affairs, and in particular the Arab-Israel conflict. This led him to undertake and complete post-graduate studies at The Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW in Global Security and Policy.
Jerry is proud of his Jewish heritage and is a staunch advocate of the continuing fight against antisemitism. He is married to Wendy and together they have five children and eight grandchildren.
Articles by Jerry Lissing:
23 December 2025
5.4 MINS
After the Bondi terror attack, Australians stood with the Jewish community in grief and solidarity—revealing a turning point that demands unity, moral courage, and decisive action against antisemitism.
14 October 2025
5.1 MINS
How two millennia of exile taught the Jewish people to stand, and why Israel — shielded by memory and might — will not be bullied into silence. Jews do not seek permission to survive. We do not need lectures when our children’s lives are on the line.
25 March 2025
4.9 MINS
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong cannot claim to oppose antisemitism while simultaneously undermining Israel’s right to self-defence and security.
13 February 2024
10.5 MINS
Holocaust denial and the comparison of Israeli Zionism to Nazism has rapidly become a powerful strategic communication tool in the hands of both state and non-state actors within the context of the perennial Arab-Israeli conflict.
6 January 2024
4.5 MINS
The film "One Life" tells the relatively unknown, but powerful story of Nicholas Winton. He exemplified and gave honour to the ancient Jewish Talmudic teaching that “whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”
28 November 2023
5 MINS
After 2000 years of virulent holy hatred, Judeophobia, genocide, expulsions, blood libels, ghettoisation, rejection, ridicule and demonisation, the world has not been able to cast off the shackles of innate antisemitism.
