Australia is poised overnight to abandon long-standing positions on United Nations votes regarding Israel, deepening a diplomatic rift with the Jewish state.

The Albanese government was consulting with like-minded nations as it considered switching positions on the three General Assembly resolutions, to be voted on at 2am on Wednesday AEDT in New York, as part of a bid to kickstart the stalled peace process as part of an “irreversible pathway” towards the creation of an independent Palestine alongside Israel.