He decided, ‘Oh, I’ll exploit the sensitivity of this issue for a short-term political purpose,’ when he decided to drop in the media during the by-election for Wentworth that he was going to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and he was...
I’m not going to stand here and say, ‘I have the answers on the status of Israel’s capital,’ but I think the point that a sovereign nation can decide its capital is a seductive one. It makes sense; it just does. Was the timing of the...
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...
