Questioned Australian aid for Palestinian refugees in Syria, housing demolitions in the West bank and the destruction of Australian aid projects in Gaza by Israel. Three days ago there were reports that 23 homes of Palestinians were demolished in the West Bank. It has...
A 2002 trip, for which he took long service leave, to Palestine’s West Bank to conduct volunteer research work at Nablus University made international headlines when Liam and seven others were arrested at gunpoint and held for five days by the Israeli Army. The group...
“Today, 138 nations recognise Palestine as a state with the rights and responsibility accorded to all other states. It is time that Australia added its name to this important list. It is time for this Senate, I believe, to call on the Turnbull government to recognise...
Questioned the perceived bias of the ABC’s Middle East correspondent Sophie McNeill. Is it fair to say as well that those journalists who are reporting on heated conflicts and those where there are passionate views held on either side tend to be those who fall...
Questioned the appointment of Sophie McNeill as the ABC’s Middle East correspondent. Two years earlier she declared Mr Fisk her hero and someone she admires very much, who also has an unfortunate history of pejorative and anti-Israel writings. I am just...