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David Williams at his office 60 Collins St, Melbourne, and "Fairfield" farm, Darraweit, Picture Yuri Kouzmin

PolyNovo offers cash to oust CEO

Workplace disputes don’t usually culminate with complainants being ousted but emerging from PolyNovo’s unedifying brouhaha is talk its discontented CEO was encouraged to depart.

Yoni Bashan

Israel at warWorld

Israel's newly appointed armed forces chief, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir (C), visits the Western Wall in the old city of Jerusalem on March 5, 2025. Zamir said during his inauguration on March 5 that Israel's mission to defeat Palestinian militant group Hamas was "not accomplished". (Photo by Menahem Kahana / AFP)

‘Hamas not yet defeated’: New IDF chief

New IDF chief Eyal Zamir says his country’s mission to defeat Hamas remains unfinished as he took office.

AFP

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A Palestinian family (C-L) eat an iftar meal, the breaking of the fast, in their destroyed house amid the rubble of buildings in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on March 4, 2025, during the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. UN chief Antonio Guterres said he strongly endorsed an Egyptian plan put to Arab leaders at a summit in Cairo on March 4 for Gaza's reconstruction without displacement of its Palestinian inhabitants. (Photo by Bashar TALEB / AFP)

White House rejects Arab leaders’ post-war Gaza plan

The White House said the Arab plan for Gaza ‘doesn’t address reality’ and reaffirmed its commitment to Donald Trump’s plan to take over the enclave and relocate all of its two million residents.

AFP

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Palestinians refill on water next to a destroyed mosque at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on March 3, 2025, during the holy Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)

‘Gates of hell will open’ if hostages not returned: Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu has told parliament Israel is preparing for the next stage of the war amid reports Jerusalem has drafted a ‘Hell Plan’ to ramp up pressure on Hamas.

AFP

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Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip on March 2, 2025, after Israel suspended the entry of supplies into the Palestinian enclave. Israel said on March 2, that it was suspending the entry of supplies into Gaza, with artillery fire and an air strike reported in the territory after it and Hamas hit an impasse over how to proceed with their fragile ceasefire. (Photo by AFP)

EU takes Hamas to task as aid blocked

The EU has condemned what it called Hamas’s refusal to accept an extension of the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire agreement.

Dov Lieber

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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MARCH 1: Protesters hold photos of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip during a demonstration calling for the release of all hostages on March 1, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire ended earlier this week, but negotiations on the second phase, which would bring the release of further hostages, have not yet begun. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israel suspends flow of aid into Gaza

Israel announced on Sunday that it was suspending the entry of supplies into Gaza, and threatened “consequences” for Hamas if it did not accept a proposal for a temporary extension of the truce in the Palestinian territory.

Alice Chancellor

Mideast warWorld

Israel backs US proposal for Ramadan, Passover truce

Israel said it endorsed a proposal to temporarily extend the truce in Gaza as a bridging measure after the first phase of its ceasefire with Hamas drew to a close.

AFP

EditorialEditorials

Macquarie must lift its standards

Dr Abdel-Fattah’s expressed views indicate how anti-Semitism – often masquerading as opposition to Israel – is embedded in our universities. And antipathy to political culture is its evil twin.

Editorial

INQUIRERInquirer

, Anti-semitic graffiti sprayed on See Lane in Kingsford this week. Picture: Supplied.,

Accusations of ‘weaponising anti-Semitism’ aim to silence

Labor shrinks itself to the occasion with a grubby tactic that plays to the Israel-haters.

Julie Szego

ARC probeEducation

DAILY TELEGRAPH 22ND MAY 2024Pictured is Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah speaking at a pro Palestine protest at Macquarie University in Sydney.Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah is a former lawyer, author and prominent Palestine advocate and future fellow at Macquarie University Department of Sociology.Picture: Richard Dobson

Uni won’t play ball on activist outburst

An Australian Research Council probe into anti-Israel activist Randa Abdel-Fattah has stalled.

Natasha Bita

InquirerInquirer

What have we become? Silence over babies’ murder a terrifying insight

Countries from Argentina to the US responded in solidarity to the deaths of Israel’s little Bibas boys. Here in Australia? Not a word in response from Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong to this heinous act.

Gemma Tognini

NEWSNewsWire

Thomas Stojanovski was arrested at Arncliffe over his alleged role in an anti-Semitic graffiti attack. Picture: NSW Police.

CCTV of anti-Israeli ‘hate crime’ revealed

CCTV footage of a part of a crime spree in which a car was torched and buildings were vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti has been revealed in court.

Adelaide Lang and Steven Zemek

military investigationThe Wall Street Journal

JERUSALEM - JULY 20: (----EDITORIAL USE ONLY MANDATORY CREDIT - 'ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE / HANDOUT' - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS----) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Herzi Halevi (R), and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (not seen) follow the attack by Israeli warplanes Hudaydah Port in Yemen, controlled by the Iran-backed Houthis on the Red Sea coast, from the operations center in Jerusalem on July 20, 2024. (Photo by Israeli Prime Minister's Office / Handout /Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel missed obvious signs Hamas was about to attack: official probe

The first Israeli military commission into the Oct 7 attacks found military officials were blindsided by the Hamas-led assault after badly misinterpreting the militant group’s intentions and vastly underestimating its capabilities – even hours before the attack.

Dov Lieber

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Yarden Bibas covering the coffin of his wife Shiri and sons Ariel and Kfir during the slain hostages' funeral near Kibbutz Nir Oz, February 26, 2025. (Eitan Uner/Hostages and Missing Families Forum)

Bibas family urges ‘all Israeli officials’ to take responsibility

Israel’s Bibas family called on all Israeli officials on Wednesday to take responsibility for the deaths of their loved ones in captivity in Gaza, saying they could have been saved.

AFP

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Syrians lift placards as they demonstrate in the central Karama Square of the southern city of Suwaydah on February 25, 2025, in rejection of statements made by Israel's premier on the weekend. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on February 23 that southern Syria "including the Quneitra, Daraa and Suwayda provinces" must be completely demilitarised, warning that Israel "We will not allow forces from the HTS organisation or the new Syrian army to enter the area south of Damascus," referring to Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which spearheaded the offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December. (Photo by SHADI AL DUBAISI / AFP)

Israel’s demilitarisation call tests Syria’s shaky government

The push, aimed at ensuring Israel’s security, risks further fragmenting Syria

Sudarsan Raghavan

EditorialEditorials

Senator Wong’s one-sided diplomacy at UN exposed

Penny Wong has never hidden her distaste for the way Israel is waging war in its battle for survival. She also has been upfront in her hopes for a reformed Palestinian Authority and the role it could play in finding a solution to the Middle East imbroglio.

Editorial

UniversityPolitics

Anti-Israel academic’s $870k taxpayer grant frozen

Controversial anti-Israel academic Randa Abdel-Fattah has had her $870,000 taxpayer-funded research grant suspended.

Noah Yim

EXTENSION HOPEThe Wall Street Journal

Ohad Yahalomi with his wife Bat-Sheva and their two eldest children Yael and Eitan. Picture: X

Hamas hands over four bodies in last hostage release of current ceasefire phase

Mediators race to secure truce to remain on path to peace and end the Israel-Hamas war.

Anat Peled, Summer Said and agencies

EXCLUSIVENation

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong speaks during the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on September 27, 2024. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz / AFP)

Wong missed Israel at UN, but held court with Iran, Palestinian Authority

Penny Wong used her attendance at a UN General Assembly meeting to push for a timeline for a Palestinian state, as well as ceasefires in Gaza and Lebanon, at the height of Israel’s moves to crush Hezbollah.

Noah Yim

Middle EastWorld

Stills from an AI-generated video depicting war-ravaged Gaza rebuilt into a seaside resort.

Even Trump fans decry ‘poor taste’ AI-generated Gaza resort video

The video ‘Gaza 2025 What’s Next?’ opens with people on a rubble-strewn street emerging from a tunnel onto a beach with palm trees and yachts.

David Charter

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