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Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in August 2025 announcing that Australia will recognise a Palestinian state. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
July 30, 2026, 8:30 am
Cold comfort from Labor
Labor's conference rejected the worst amendments, but its platform still weakens support for Israel.
By AJN STAFF
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong in the Senate on November 28. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
July 21, 2026, 4:12 pm
Wong reaffirms statehood conditions before conference
Wong reaffirms Australia's conditions for recognising a Palestinian state days before ALP national conference.
By Gareth Narunsky
Panel on the Royal Commission during the NSW Labor Conference. Photo: Facebook @Ron.hoenig
July 7, 2026, 5:13 pm
‘Departing from Australia’s bipartisan support’
Labor draft reportedly drops explicit Hamas disarmament and PA reform conditions before national conference.
By Sharyn Kolieb
From left: Richard Marles, Judith Collins, Penny Wong and Winston Peters. Photo: Facebook
March 20, 2026, 10:39 am
AIJAC welcomes stance on Iran, criticises omission of Hamas
'Any credible pathway to peace requires acknowledging the full picture,' AIJAC executive director Colin Rubenstein says
By AJN STAFF
PA President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the UN General Assembly in September 2024. Photo: Stephanie Keith / Getty Images via AFP
September 19, 2025, 2:14 pm
Palestinian promises ‘unlikely to be implemented’, AIJAC report finds
'Because recognition is not linked to real, verifiable change, Australia and other countries risk rewarding extremism and corruption, not building peace'
By AJN STAFF
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference in Canberra, May 26, 2025. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch.
September 17, 2025, 2:11 pm
The useful contribution Australia can make in New York
As Albanese heads to New York, Australia must challenge the UN’s hollow gestures on Palestine and insist on accountability, real negotiations, and Israel’s equal place at the table
By Mike Kelly
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Photo: Sergei Bobylev/Photo host agency RIA Novosti via AP
August 13, 2025, 2:49 pm
Australia’s naivete and ignorance and its betrayal of Israel
'The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister are rehashing nothing more than an unrealistic dream without really understanding what practicalities lie behind that expression'
By Alan Baker
Israeli ambassador Amir Maimon with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong in 2022. Photo: Peter Haskin
August 11, 2025, 3:27 pm
Israeli Ambassador reacts to Palestine announcement
'Rewarding those who use terror as a political tool sends the dangerous message that violence brings political gains'
By Gareth Narunsky
Malki Roth.
November 28, 2024, 11:05 am
Some relief for Roths
The court's determination, based on a 2022 High Court finding, rests on the PA and PLO incentivising terrorism through payments to terrorists and their families.
By Peter Kohn
Israeli UN ambassador Gilad Erdan holds up a picture of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar at the UN General Assembly while discussing the Palestinian bid for full membership to the UN. Photo: Charly Triballeau/AFP
May 16, 2024, 8:00 am
Jewish groups condemn Labor
Writing in this week's AJN, Wong told the Jewish community, "We see no role for Hamas ... A Palestinian state cannot be in a position to threaten Israel's security."
By Bruce Hill
PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh. Photo: Ludovic Marin/AP
February 29, 2024, 11:19 am
Entire PA government resigns
International efforts have intensified to stop the fighting in Gaza and begin work on a political structure to govern the enclave after the war.
By Agencies and TOI Staff
Students at the Fadwa Touqan Mixed Elementary School in Nablus draw pictures of Hamas terrorists on gliders, on October 15. Photo: Facebook screenshot
December 4, 2023, 2:41 pm
PA schools celebrated October 7 Hamas massacres
By TOI STAFF
Students at the Fadwa Touqan Mixed Elementary School in Nablus draw pictures of Hamas terrorists on gliders, on October 15. Photo: Facebook screenshot
November 27, 2023, 6:47 am
Watchdog’s report PA schools celebrated October 7 Hamas massacres
“These findings indicate that the next generation of Palestinians are being desensitised to violence and death, to see Jews and Israelis as inhuman creatures..."
By AJN STAFF
School girls watch as UNRWA commissioner-general Pierre Krahenbuhl gives a press conference in Gaza in 2018. Photo: AP Photo/Adel Hana
November 12, 2023, 6:57 am
UNRWA staff praised massacres
"...the study found that at least 100 Hamas members who have carried out terror attacks against Israelis in recent years are graduates of the UNRWA education system."
By JEREMY SHARON
Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on August 4. Photo: Wissam Khalifa/PPO/AFP
October 25, 2023, 7:11 am
Abbas seems to backtrack on comments
According to WAFA, Abbas stressed to Biden "the necessity of stopping all attacks and respecting international humanitarian law" in Gaza.
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