In moving the embassy to Jerusalem, the false assertion is made that somehow this might prejudice the peace process. Let’s be very clear that any consideration by Australia to move the embassy—and I stress it’s only a consideration at this stage—would be...
Australians will know this about me: what I believe today is what I will believe next week and what I will believe a month from now. I went to Israel with the now Leader of the Opposition, but only one of us seems to have remembered the lessons of that trip. Our...
As Prime Minister, I’ve made announcements today which flag that our government is open to considering, in the context of a two-state solution, which we do not resile from—in fact, it was because of our commitment to a two-state solution that we believe that we...
So the Leader of the Opposition can come to the despatch box and he can beat his chest, but what he can’t do is say that he supports the announcements that I’ve made today. He cannot say that. He is not open to the question of whether we could recognise...
But one thing that hasn’t changed has been our longstanding respect for the values of the state of Israel and the Israeli people. They are a beacon of liberal democracy in the Middle East like no other, and today’s announcements by the Prime Minister...