Palestinian state
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
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
August 21, 2025, 11:22 am
Poll on Palestine recognition
, people don't think Australia's actions will make much, if any, difference on the ground in Gaza." says Resolve pollster Jim Reed.
By AJN STAFF
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a press conference in Canberra, May 26, 2025. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch.
August 14, 2025, 8:45 am
Albanese’s backflip has consequences
In Australia, 67 per cent who answered an AJN poll believe it will lead to more antisemitism.
By AJN STAFF
Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Photo: AAP.
April 24, 2025, 5:14 pm
Major parties outline diverging policies in AIJAC questionnaire
Topics ranged from Australia’s relationship with Israel and the Gaza conflict to strategies for addressing antisemitism, multiculturalism, and handling public broadcaster complaints
By AJN STAFF
Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Bezalel Smotrich during the cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 18. Photo: Amit Shabi/Pool
June 25, 2023, 7:01 am
US lambasts Israeli settlement moves
The decision, which takes immediate effect, also dramatically expedites and eases the process for expanding existing West Bank settlements and retroactively legalising some illegal outposts.
By Jacob Magid
Professor Martin Kramer. Photo: Screenshot
June 11, 2023, 6:38 am
Eminent historian addresses AIJAC
Recognition "would immediately raise a whole host of issues" including borders, the authority of the state, its military capabilities and other issues which are meant to be negotiated.
By AJN STAFF
Co-convener of the SA Parliamentary Friends of Palestine, Tony Piccolo.
June 29, 2017, 12:00 am
SA supports Palestine recognition
JEWISH leaders have expressed their deep disappointment at the South Australian Parliament’s vote to ask Canberra to recognise a Palestinian state, the first time an Australian parliament has done so.
By Peter Kohn
Philip Dalidakis. Photo: YouTube screenshot
March 3, 2017, 12:00 am
Dalidakis takes on grandees
Victoria's Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade has hit out at fellow Labor members who have called for Australia to recognise a Palestinian state.
Naftali Bennett responding to John Kerry's speech last week. Photo: EPA/Jim Hollander
January 5, 2017, 12:01 am
Bennett bolstered by UN resolution
Naftali Bennett, champion of the settler cause and leader of the rightist Jewish Home party is positioning himself as the man who has answers to international criticism.
The major parties have revealed their positions on key election issues of interest to Jewish voters.
June 23, 2016, 12:00 am
Parties’ positions on key election issues
The five major parties that could decide the future of Australia after the election said they do not support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel and would fund security for Jewish schools and institutions if it was recommended by police or ASIO.
By Joshua Levi
November 21, 2013, 12:00 am
Coalition changes anti-Israel votes at UN
AUSTRALIA’S new government has changed the country’s vote on two annual United Nations motions condemning Israeli settlements.
By Gareth Narunsky
August 8, 2013, 12:00 am
Howard: ‘We wouldn’t have abstained’
AS Australia swings into election mode, former prime minister John Howard has said his government would not have abstained from the United Nations’ vote on Palestinian statehood.
By Gareth Narunsky
September 28, 2011, 9:41 am
Abbott, Lew on the same page
IT seemed scripted – a prominent businessman unleashes on the ineffectiveness of the government, following which, the alternative prime minister stands up to present a case that things would be different with him at the helm.
August 11, 2011, 9:50 am
Rudd stance a ‘surprise’
THE Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) has expressed concern at reports that Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd wants Australia to abstain from next month’s United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood.
By Gareth Narunsky
August 5, 2011, 12:00 am
Oz shares peace hopes
ISRAEL should be the first state to officially recognise Palestine, should United Nations members vote in favour of an upcoming resolution to create the state, declared prominent Israeli author Amos Oz in Sydney this week.
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