When it comes to the way forward in the Middle East, I do stand with other colleagues calling for a permanent, immediate ceasefire. As demonstrated by our vote in the United Nations, Australia is part of a diplomatic effort supporting an immediate and humanitarian...
The opposition and the Greens are not interested in a unified community and a pathway to peace; they’re just looking at what’s in it for them. Israelis deserve better, Palestinians deserve better and Australians deserve better. Dr CHARLTON (Parramatta)...
Olfat would be deeply distressed by the unfettered and abhorrent violence in Gaza. She would agree with the United Nations’ highest legal body, the ICJ, who found that the situation in Gaza is ‘catastrophic’ and that Israel should ‘do...
It is possible to hold two truths in your heart at the same time—in this case, a deep concern for the people, and the plight, of Israel and a desperation to see the killing of innocent people and children in Gaza stopped immediately. The preliminary ruling of the...
I want to make something very clear. It is that to criticise or even to question the Israeli government is not antisemitism. Antisemitism is abhorrent and should have no place anywhere, ever—full stop. But it is right that the international community question and...
