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Social cohesion fears with weekend rallies set to clash

Groups and communities will hold their own protests in response to planned anti-immigration rallies whose premise has been flatly rejected by political leaders.

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Australia says Iran was behind two antisemitic attacks; Iranian ambassador expelled

Australia’s national security service has determined the Iranian government directed at least two antisemitic attacks in Australia – on Lewis Continental Kitchen in Sydney, and the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne.

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'Slava Ukraini!': Australia marks Ukraine independence

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has praised the courage of Ukraine's people on the 34th anniversary of its independence, as archaeological items are returned.

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'Forever tarnished': Netanyahu spews more vitriol on PM

Israel's prime minister has launched another verbal salvo against Anthony Albanese over his handling of the situation in the Middle East as calls grow for calm.

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Australia’s peak Jewish group condemns Netanyahu’s ‘clumsy’ attack on Albanese and calls for end to ‘spat’

ECAJ says Australian and Israeli governments should use ‘diplomacy rather than public posturing’

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Israel diplomatic row deepens; Lehrmann a ‘national joke’, court told; and the agony of a software update

‘Strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up or how many children you can leave hungry,’ the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, says

The Guardian - AU

Row between Israel and Australia descends into personal insults as Netanyahu calls Albanese ‘weak’

Australian home minister tells Israel’s PM that ‘strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up’

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Netanyahu brands Australia's Albanese 'weak' over Palestinian state recognition

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has dismissed accusations from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the Australian leader a "weak politician" for recognizing a Palestinian state

The Independent UK

Australia and Israel: how the war of words unfolded – in quotes

After announcing plans to recognise a Palestinian state, Australia’s decision to reject visa application from far-right Knesset member heightens tensions with Israel

The Guardian - AU

Australia hits back at Netanyahu amid escalating diplomatic row over Gaza

Australia’s Home Affairs minister says ‘strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up’.

Al Jazeera

Australia Lashes Netanyahu Over 'Weak' Leader Outburst

Australia lashed Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday after he said the country's prime minister was weak, with a top minister saying strength was more than "how many people you can blow up".

International Business Times

‘Strength not measured by how many people you can blow up,’ Tony Burke says as row with Netanyahu escalates

Home affairs minister’s criticism comes after Israeli prime minister calls Australia’s PM Anthony Albanese a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel’

The Guardian - AU

Albanese shrugs off swipe from angry Israeli leader

The prime minister says he will still engage with Benjamin Netanyahu diplomatically, despite the Israeli leader calling him 'weak'.

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Australia cancels visa of far-right Israeli politician

Australian home minister accuses Simcha Rothman of intending to ‘spread division’

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The Guardian - AU

Israel’s foreign minister revokes visas of Australian representatives to Palestinian Authority

Penny Wong calls decision, which follows Australia’s refusal of a visa for the far-right Israeli politician Simcha Rothman, ‘unjustified’

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Israel retaliates after Australia blocks politician

Israel's foreign affairs minister says he has revoked the visas of Australia's representatives to the Palestinian Authority.

The Guardian - AU

Far-right Israeli politician barred from Australia ahead of speaking tour

Simcha Rothman – a supporter of plan to remove Palestinians from Gaza – was scheduled to appear at events in Sydney and Melbourne

The Guardian - AU

‘An ear for truth and love for the human’: tributes paid to film critic David Stratton

Anthony Albanese says Australians loved his ‘wit and insight’ while actor Rachel Griffiths remembers a ‘servant to creativity’

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AI companies want copyright exemption, but the arts minister says there are ‘no plans’ to weaken these laws. What’s going on?

“We have copyright laws,” said arts minister Tony Burke last week. “We have no plans, no intention, no appetite to be weakening those copyright laws based on this draft report that’s floating around.”

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'World cannot wait': Australia to recognise Palestine

Australia will follow allies in formally recognising Palestinian statehood amid mounting pressure to take action on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The Guardian - AU

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event

Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

AAP

Public servants warned over social media security risk

Workers with access to secret information have been warned against boasting about it on social media as foreign spies target them online.

The Independent UK

Police arrest suspect in Melbourne synagogue attack as international criminal links probed

It comes amid a wave of antisemitic attacks

The Guardian - AU

New MPs deliver first speeches – as it happened

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'Golden ticket' visa for the rich fails to pay its way

Previously classified documents reveal the reasons why an investor visa, dubbed a "golden ticket" for the rich to immigrate to Australia, was scrapped.

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