Penny Wong
Australia backs UN vote on ‘permanent sovereignty’ for Palestinians
Australia broke with the US and Israel in two UN votes on Thursday – the latest in a series of votes that have angered local pro-Israel groups in Australia.
- by Matthew Knott
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Morrison backs Rudd as Australia’s man in DC despite Trump sledges
Anthony Albanese gets Donald Trump on the phone to talk submarines as ambassador Kevin Rudd deletes all his past criticisms of the US president-elect.
- by Matthew Knott and Olivia Ireland
Reconsider AUKUS, say former Labor foreign ministers
The government is insisting Kevin Rudd will stay on as Australia’s ambassador to Washington despite his past criticism of Donald Trump.
- by David Crowe
Dutton motivated only by votes on abortion debate
Peter Dutton’s handling of the party’s stance on abortion shows how he plans to run the Coalition.
Opinion
Middle East tensions
Australians are traumatised by Middle East horrors. They deserve the facts
Australians with Israeli, Palestinian and Lebanese links are suffering – and that is intensified in a debate often framed by incorrect information.
- by Penny Wong
See the free flights our most senior MPs take
Who flew where, how and who paid are fast becoming the defining questions in politics.
- by Millie Muroi
Opinion
Pacific diplomacy
Australia’s arm-wrestle with China is all over the billboards
Anyone who doubts Australia and China are in what Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong called a “permanent contest” in the Pacific needs to think again.
- by Richard McGregor
Liz Truss goes to Canberra, courtesy of Peter Dutton
Despite a record of failure, the former British prime minister is a hit with some of our local politicians.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Middle East at war
Police chiefs to plead for calm ahead of October 7 protests
On a day the opposition accused Labor of “appeasing” anti-Western forces, Foreign Minister Penny Wong backed Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran.
- by Paul Sakkal and Kieran Rooney
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International affairs
‘Real risk of torture’: Moore-Gilbert says Wong must act now for detainee in Turkey
Former political prisoner Kylie Moore-Gilbert says “there is a crucial window of time” in which Foreign Minister Penny Wong can assist Melbourne woman Cigdem Aslan, who was arrested by Turkish intelligence.
- by Melissa Cunningham
Penny Wong: ‘Lebanon cannot become the next Gaza’
In a strengthening of her language, Wong said: “Civilians are being killed by Israeli strikes and it is women and children who are paying the highest price.”
- by Matthew Knott
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