The UN’s food agency has stopped its aid convoys into under-siege Gaza for security reasons,after Israel launched an incursion into the area.
Lawyer and human rights advocate,Nyadol Nyuon OAM recently travelled back to Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya with Australia for UNHCR. This was her first visit to the camp since she left almost two decades ago.
In a rare public display of disunity on foreign affairs,Labor MP Josh Burns said Jewish Australians would feel more isolated as a result of the vote.
Australian government sources said a watered-down version of the motion contained major concessions by the Palestinians and Arab nations.
Potential ceasefire talks come as Australia is preparing to cast a potentially controversial vote on whether to admit Palestine as a full member of the United Nations.
Australia is attempting to help a global push to end plastic pollution before it outweighs the biomass of the world’s fish by the year 2050. But other countries have different ambitions.
The US State Department has called the reports “incredibly troubling” and asked the Israeli government for information.
Among the 12 countries recognising Palestine were US allies France,Japan and South Korea.
To be morally consistent with previous actions and to uphold to amendments Wong herself pushed for,Australia must change its tune towards Israel.
Myanmar has been locked in civil war since the army took power from Aung Suu Kyi’s elected government in 2021.
Even fierce Israel defender Donald Trump is fed up with the conflict:“You have to finish up your war ... you’re losing a lot of support.”