Deconstruction Zone: What Doc Evatt could teach Penny Wong – Ahron Shapiro, 20 November 2024

On November 6, the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne’s Age published an opinion piece by Foreign Minister Penny Wong titled “Australians are traumatised and deserve facts on Middle East horrors”. The piece, which chiefly recounted the various ways in which the Albanese Government has steered Australian foreign policy away from previous bipartisan support for Israel, included a lot of…

Foreign Ministers’ Statement on Legislation Against UNRWA Under Consideration by the Israeli Knesset 27 October 2024

On 27 October, Australia released the below Joint Foreign Ministers’ Statement with Canada and five other like-minded countries: We, the Foreign Ministers of Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom, express our grave concern over legislation currently under consideration by the Israeli Knesset, aimed at revoking the privileges and immunities…