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President-elect Donald Trump

How Australia, and the world, can respond to an unpredictable future

There are limited and difficult choices ahead for those who believe in a multilateral world order.

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Illustration: Simon Letch

It’s worse than any war or pandemic, so why are our leaders ignoring it?

Tell me I’m not dreaming: 2025 could be the year of bipartisan action on catastrophic climate change.

  • Malcolm Knox
The Israeli strikes on Sanaa left the airport control tower a blackened shell.

WHO chief caught up in Israeli airstrike ‘lesson’ on Yemen

“The Houthis will also learn what Hamas, Hezbollah, the Assad regime have learned. This lesson will be understood across the Middle East,” the Israeli PM said.

  • Daniel Hardaker and Jotam Confino
Ingram in October 2024, in a shelter in Beirut.

From Perth to Manhattan to Sudan, this is the year that changed my life

I haven’t felt that way about many, if any, of the 34 years I lived before this one. But I am certain what I experienced in 2024 will stay with me forever.

  • Tess Ingram

Telling Israel the killing must stop in Gaza is not antisemitic

Israel had every right respond to Hamas, but some of its supporters ignore a critical constraint under international law.

  • Rodger Shanahan
Mick Kelly and Penny Wong.

Australia’s damning of Israel is poisonous. I say that as an ex-Labor minister

Israel has the right under international law to use military force to defend its very existence. The Albanese government’s response is despicable.

  • Mike Kelly
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Relations between The Israeli and the Australian government are strained.

Inside the fiery meeting that would define the government’s relationship with Israel

Fallout from the war in Gaza has created a deepening rift in relations between Australia and Israel. The hostilities are political and personal.

  • Matthew Knott
Young Palestinians walk amongst rubble of destroyed buildings at a neighbourhood in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, in earlt December.

Australia backs UN vote for ‘unconditional ceasefire’ amid Netanyahu fury

The vote comes as the Australia-Israel relationship frays following Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu’s public condemnation of the Albanese government.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Greens staff Antoun Issa has been reprimanded for suggesting the firebombing of a Melbourne synagogue could be a “false flag” attack.

Greens staffer reprimanded for suggesting synagogue arson may have been ‘false flag’

A prominent staffer for Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi “regrets” saying the attack, which authorities have said is probably terrorism, could have been perpetrated by Zionists.

  • Paul Sakkal
Benjamin Netanyahu’s office had strongly criticised the government of Anthony Albanese over its lack of support for Israel.

Netanyahu’s rebuke of Albanese is weak and unprovable but serves his purposes

Israel’s prime minister sees himself as the ultimate defender of Israel against an international left that he portrays as hostile and complicit in antisemitism.

  • Dan Perry

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