Australia has broken ranks with the US in refusing to recognise the ‘necessity’ of dismantling Hezbollah’s strike capabilities against Israel, after the Jewish state launched a ground operation in Lebanon.
Influential Islamic organisations have thrown their support behind the government’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia, saying it would address hatred, while urging for protections against protesters and action against ‘anti-Palestinian sentiment’.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has declared a timeline should be set for the international declaration of a Palestinian state and is pushing the UN Security Council to play a more significant role in advancing a two-state solution.
Mothers seeking terminations after 28 weeks would deliver their babies alive instead of stillborn so they could be placed for adoption, under reforms being proposed by SA Liberal MP Ben Hood.
Anthony Albanese has blasted the supermarket duopoly for treating customers like ‘fools’ and warned Coles and Woolworths may have exacerbated inflation, as he unveiled a crackdown on misconduct in the sector.
House Speaker Milton Dick has visited more than 125 schools across Australia in a bid to spread ‘democracy literacy’.
Nationals delegates are pushing the rural party to debate halving the fuel excise, supporting government ownership of REX Airlines and exempting foreign backpackers from superannuation.
The summit – to be held in Wilmington, Delaware later this month – will be the last for Joe Biden and Fumio Kishida.
Union leaders have accused the Reserve Bank of signalling that ‘workers should get the sack’ after its chief economist Sarah Hunter said the labour market was still too tight and driving inflation.
Leading defence experts have backed a proposal from opposition defence spokesman Andrew Hastie to expand the AUKUS framework to cover co-operation between the SAS and US Navy SEALs.
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