In a strengthening of her language,Wong said:“Civilians are being killed by Israeli strikes and it is women and children who are paying the highest price.”
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the number of Australians now in Lebanon who may require assistance during a full-blown war is “beyond the capacity of the government”.
It is profoundly misguided for Australia to see the Ukraine war as a faraway conflict in which we do not have a direct interest.
Australia’s UN ambassador has insisted that,despite Australia’s vote,it is only a matter of time until an independent Palestinian state is recognised.
Independent MPs slammed parliament’s new standards agency,saying it was a toothless major party “stitch-up”,while Linda Reynolds called its creators “hypocritical”.
Labor talks a big game on diversity and inclusion. But as a gay man,I’ve lost patience with the glacial pace of the party’s reform agenda.
The foreign minister joins international condemnation of comments from a senior Israeli minister that stopping aid until hostages are returned could be “just and moral”.
Anthony Albanese decried the ambassador’s comments on Israel as hateful and antisemitic,while Foreign Minister Penny Wong labelled them repugnant.
Penny Wong said today’s milestone would deepen the links between the two countries “and make it easier to foster greater commercial ties” between Australia and the US.
Israeli officials were especially incensed that the foreign affairs minister described the April killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers as an “intentional strike”.
An Australian special adviser has handed down a report into the death of aid worker Zomi Frankcom,who was killed in Gaza in April.