It’s hard to explain how people in Macnamara would be feeling, but I’ll try to, just very briefly. For those people, to understand Jerusalem as the capital is as simple as us understanding Canberra as the capital of our country, and it would be like...
I welcome the fact that today we are here so that we can put back on the record Australia’s support for a two-state solution and for the fact that the question of Jerusalem is a status issue that will be dealt with by the parties involved. This will put us back...
What is in debate is the manner and approach by which this government took this decision. That is what the debate is about today—the shambolic, dishonest and broken-promise approach that has been taken. Full speech Mr ROBERT (Fadden) (16:24): The reason this matter is...
This was a disgraceful decision, disgracefully executed. Australia’s Jewish community and many other right-thinking Australians have every reason to feel deeply disappointed and indeed abandoned by what this government has done. Full speech Mr FLETCHER...
Reversing the decision of the coalition government in 2018 to recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was no small decision. It was a decision to ignore and disrespect the decision of a sovereign nation to choose its own capital. Labor’s decision would...
