Yesterday
- Opinion
- Benjamin Netanyahu
What would a better Israeli prime minister do?
Israel needs to offer a postwar vision for Gaza and articulate the real stakes in this war – one battle in the struggle between the free and unfree worlds.
- Bret Stephens
Australian Muslim Vote campaign mirrors the US, UK
It has been brewing for months, but the controversy over renegade Labor senator Fatima Payman and her full-throated support for Palestine has spurred it on.
- Andrew Tillett
This Month
How Fatima Payman is defying political traditions
In the era of identity politics, are rules requiring Labor MPs to bind behind collective decisions out of step with the views of younger voters?
- Andrew Tillett
Israel to test Hamas-free ‘bubbles’ in postwar Gaza plan
The pilot scheme for the “humanitarian enclaves” – a template for what Israel imagines would follow the war – will soon be launched in northern Gaza neighbourhoods.
- Neri Zilber
June
Iran’s election pits reformist against ultra-hardliner
Iran will hold a runoff presidential election to replace the late Ebrahim Raisi after the top candidates failed to secure a majority.
- Updated
- Sussanah George
- Opinion
- Opinion
In the end, Payman gave Albanese no choice
For the second time in this sitting session Fatima Payman has stolen the agenda and derailed the government’s attempts to spruik cost-of-living relief.
- Phillip Coorey
- Updated
- Anthony Albanese
Albanese banishes rebel Labor senator
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has suspended Senator Fatima Payman indefinitely from Labor’s caucus after she defied his leadership by vowing to cross the floor again to back pro-Palestine motions.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett and Ronald Mizen
US, Europe warn Hezbollah to back off from Israel war
Western powers and Arab mediators issued the warning after Iran and Israel traded threats of what Iran said would be an “obliterating” war over Hezbollah.
- Ellen Knickmeyer and Aamer Madhani
In Israel’s north, waiting for Hezbollah to attack
In the villages near the border with Lebanon, locals see a real war with the Iran-backed group as a matter of when, not if, even though an escalation would lead to enormous destruction on both sides.
- Fiona Buffini
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Payman has crossed Labor’s tribal caucus comrades
Unlike the West Australian senator who gifted the Greens a propaganda victory, Penny Wong stayed in the tent and effected change from within on same-sex marriages.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Opinion
ALP should be flexible like UK Labour and ditch the three-line whip
Fatima Payman crossing the Senate floor is a chance to fundamentally revisit Labor’s approach to caucusing.
- Michael Easson
- Opinion
- Review
What Israel’s ultra-orthodox draft means for Netanyahu
The Israeli Prime Minister relies on the support of minority parties to hold on to power. The court ruling has put some of them offside.
- Melanie Lidman
PM ‘suspends’ rebel senator, factional bosses stir
Labor’s factional bosses say Anthony Albanese disrespected the caucus by overriding its authority when dealing with rebel senator Fatima Payman.
- Phillip Coorey
Labor senator Fatima Payman crosses the floor over Palestine
The first-term Labor senator has avoided expulsion from the ALP after voting with the Greens to recognise Palestinian statehood.
- Tom McIlroy
Suspected Houthi attack suggests widening operation
The attack happened near the outer reaches of the Gulf of Aden where it becomes the Arabian Sea and then ultimately the Indian Ocean.
- Jon Gambrell
Netanyahu says Gaza intense fighting close to ending
The Israeli PM says the new stage would offer a chance to move forces to the north to where tensions with Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been growing.
- Updated
- James Shotter and Neri Zilber
Israeli business leaders push for elections
A forum of Israel’s top 200 business leaders is calling for early elections “to save Israel from a deep economic crisis”.
- Marissa Newman and Galit Altstein
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said militant leaders from Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen had previously offered to send tens of thousands of fighters to help.
- Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassem Mroue
- Opinion
- Perspective
Israel needs to get the hell out of Gaza
The extremists in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government have led a reckless act of economic, military and moral overstretch.
- Thomas Friedman
Israel pounds Gaza, killing dozens, as fighting rages
Israeli tanks were forcing their way into the western and northern parts of Rafah, and troops were engaged in close-quarter combat with Hamas militants.
- Nidal al-Mughrabi