Captain’s calls: here we have a Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, who decided just days out from the Wentworth by-election that it was time to unilaterally announce that Australia was considering moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. There was no consultation...
…the utter debacle created by Mr Morrison’s desperate decision to trash decades of considered, bipartisan foreign policy to try to win a few votes in Wentworth—and didn’t that go well! We learnt in Senate estimates that the decision to consider moving the...
I consulted with all the ministers of the National Security Committee before I indicated one simple thing, and that is that I found the arguments of the Liberal candidate for Wentworth, the former ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma, who had put forward a very, I think,...
What the government has said quite clearly—and this matter was discussed at cabinet—and the simple point we’ve made is we are looking at the question of whether the government would move to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. That’s what we said...
But what I would make very clear is that the government has not made a decision in relation to the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The government has not made a decision on that. Full speech Ms PLIBERSEK (Sydney—Deputy Leader of the Opposition)...
