Senator Doug Cameron – spoke about the crisis in Gaza and Israeli settlement activity and emphasised the importance of Australia in bringing peace and security to Palestine and the region

Nov 19, 2012

The Australian government must look beyond this current conflict and strive to bring about a pathway to peace. This requires an independent critical analysis of the issues required to bring about a lasting peace in the Middle East. Full speech Senator CAMERON (New...

Senator Bob Carr – responding to questions by Lee Rhiannon regarding damage to Australian-funded aid programming in Palestine

Oct 30, 2012

Australia has expressed concern to the Israeli authorities about the proposed demolitions and is committed to working with the Israeli authorities to find a solution which avoids demolition of these structures. Full speech Senator Rhiannon asked the Minister for...

Senator Bob Carr – responding to questions by Eric Abetz on the legal attack by Israeli organisation, Shurat Ha-Din, on Australian-funded aid programming operated by World Vision and the Union of Agricultural Work Committee

Oct 30, 2012

The senator ought to take his submission to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem because his argument is with the government of Israel. The government of Israel has not proscribed this organisation. Let me just say what it does when they are seeking to deny aid. It distributes...

Anthony Byrne MP – presenting report of Intelligence and Security Committee relisting various Palestinian organisations as terrorist organisations

Oct 10, 2012

This is the first relisting of Al Shabaab, the fourth relisting of the Kurdistan Workers Party and the fifth relisting of the Hamas brigades, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. In each case the committee was satisfied that each of the groups...

Senator Anne Urquhart – speech on 30 years’ commemoration of the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon

Sep 19, 2012

Thirty years ago this week, militia stormed the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. It was 16 September 1982 and, in a deliberate, planned and overseen attack that lasted two days, the lives of between 800 and 3,000 refugees were taken. This was a...