The position in the Middle East is a complex one and one that we know is causing great distress for Jewish Australians, for Palestinian Australians and for people of Islamic faith as well. We know that. We have a responsibility to not seek to politicise these matters...
To many in the Australian community, with the equivalent of two nuclear bombs already dropped on civilians and civilian infrastructure, Gaza’s destruction is too close to home. This weekend I received calls from constituents who reported to me hundreds of family...
Australia welcomes the G7 foreign ministers’ statement supporting humanitarian pauses and corridors in Gaza to facilitate urgently needed assistance and civilian movement. We join with the G7 in its condemnation of Hamas’s terror attacks and call for the...
What I would say is this: the people of Gaza cannot wait for the parties to this conflict to agree to a ceasefire, so we are joining the international community, including the G7, in calling for pauses in the hostilities, because we understand that food, water, fuel,...
Again, Senator Shoebridge, I refer you to my first answer and I refer you to the many answers you were provided at Senate estimates where you were told that we are not going to provide details about individual arrangements with individual countries. Senator...
