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People who arrived in Australia on tourist visas are moving to three-year humanitarian visas, minister says. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAsked if Australia’s vote in the United Nations for an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories shows a departure from being allied with Israel, deputy prime minister Richard Marles says “we remain a close friend of Israel”.Patricia Karvelas asked Marles on ABC RN: “The office suggests, representing Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli government, that Australia may no longer be a key ally of the Jewish state. How do you see it? Are you a key ally? Or does this show a departure?”We’re a close friend, and we don’t see that there is any change in our friendship, our relationship, our support for Israel, nor, PK, is there any change in our support for pursuing a two state solution. That’s been the Bipartisan Policy of our nation for decades, and the way in which we vote in the United Nations seeks to give expression to that.I don’t accept that at all, obviously.All we are doing, as I’ve just said, in expressing our voice in the United Nations, is to support Israel but is also the support a two state solution and we’ve been doing that over a long period of time, and we do that consistently with other countries in the world who are friends and allies of Australia and so I absolutely don’t accept that proposition. Continue reading…
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Author : Rafqa Touma
Publish date : 2024-12-05 21:57:46
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