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Australian flags ready for a citizenship ceremony at Melbourne Town Hall on Australia Day in 2023.

PM dodges Australia Day stoush with Dutton, calls him ‘nasty’

Anthony Albanese sidestepped the culture war topic, instead laying into Peter Dutton in personal terms over his opposition to Labor’s cost-of-living plans.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Perth last week.

Albanese stresses need for ceasefire, says Greens losing votes on Gaza

Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to truce talks in Qatar, raising hopes for an end to the war.

  • Paul Sakkal
Smoke rises following an explosion in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel on Thursday.

Netanyahu sends Mossad director to Gaza ceasefire talks in Qatar

In a sign of progress, the presence of the Mossad chief means high-level Israeli officials who would need to sign off on any agreement are now involved in the ceasefire negotiations.

  • Natalie Melzer and Wafaa Shurafa
Fatma Abu Awad and her daughter Malak pray in a graveyard where their relatives who were killed by an Israeli airstrike are buried, in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Thursday.

Gaza war death toll 41% higher than estimated, Lancet study finds

The peer-reviewed statistical analysis was conducted by academics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Yale University and other institutions.

  • Maggie Fick
Israeli released hostage Bilal Al-Ziyadne, left, reuniting with his family at Soroka Medical Centre in Beer Sheva, Israel, in December 2023.

Bedouin hostage found dead in Gaza tunnel, next to possible remains of son

Two of Youssef Ziyadne’s children, teenagers Bilal and Aisha, were released in an exchange of hostages for Palestinian prisoners in November 2023.

  • Ephrat Livni
Izzat Abdulhadi’s major regret: his tenure ended without Australia recognising Palestinian statehood, despite momentum steadily building for such a move for years within Labor.

The Israeli ambassador calls him ‘wonderful’. But Palestine’s top envoy is heading home

The de facto Palestinian ambassador’s tenure is ending after almost two decades, with one big dream yet to become reality.

  • Matthew Knott
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Izzat Abdulhadi, head of the general delegation of Palestine to Australia.

‘Very thankful’: Top Palestinian envoy praises Australia for breaking with Israel

Izzat Abdulhadi has praised Labor for daring to repeatedly anger Israel and break with the United States in its stance on the Middle East.

  • Matthew Knott
An artist’s impression of the 29-unit housing block that Homes NSW is proposing to build for seniors in Riverwood in Sydney’s south.

Where’s the good in Riverwood? Get a heart!

With the number of homeless aged people on the rise, how heartwarming it would have been if the residents of Hardwicke Street had put out the welcome mat.

Israeli soldiers prepare to be deployed to the Gaza Strip.

Blinken aims to ‘cross finish line’ on Gaza ceasefire, hostage deal as Israeli strikes intensify

A renewed push is under way to reach a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.

  • Nidal al-Mughrabi
Israeli ambasador Amir Maimon said Israel was trying to “uproot the cancer” of Hamas.

‘Don’t point fingers at us’: Israeli ambassador’s message to Australians

In a rare interview, the Israeli ambassador said he believed many Australians fail to grasp the seriousness of the security threats his nation faces.

  • Matthew Knott

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