Questioned Australia’s scrutiny of the Palestinian Authority’s budget and total foreign aid provided. Do we examine the Palestinian Authority’s budget, which is publicly available? I’m not asking whether we send the auditors in or anything like...
Questioned whether Australia has given consideration to moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and asked for an update on DFAT’s suspension of aid money to World Vision in the Palestinian Territories. When the foreign minister says ‘the biggest...
Questioned whether Australia is raising concerns with the Israeli government about settlement expansion and whether this expansion might prompt Australia to recognise the state of Palestine. What action is the department taking in raising the issue of illegal...
Questioned SBS coverage of an attack on an Israeli police officer. I make reference to the SBS World News report of 17 June 2017 about the fatal attack on an Israeli policewoman by Palestinian attackers. Is it agreed SBS found the report to have breached its own code...
Questioned reporting by ABC Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill and asked if the ABC has a commercial relationship with Al-Jazeera. What monitoring do we do of our reports out of the Middle East by Ms McNeill? Whole interaction with Mr Alan Sunderland (Director...