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Farrell dashes home from historic China trip as Gallagher gets COVID

There's a need to back up Murray Watt in the Senate.

The Canberra Times

Penny Wong: Israel needs to listen to calls for restraint from its friends or it risks Gaza conflict spreading

Writing for Guardian Australia, the foreign minister calls in the strongest terms yet for a two-state solution based on the dismantling of Hamas and an end to Israeli settlements

The Guardian - AU

Australians evacuated in Gaza await flights home

Two dozen Australians who were able to leave Gaza will start arriving home as thousands gathered to call on the government to demand a ceasefire.

AAP

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What Is Australia’s Stance On Israel-Palestine? Albo’s Shifting View, Explained

About 1,400 Israelis were killed in Hamas' attack on October 7. Since then, more than 9,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel's bombardments.

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Selena Gomez Deletes Instagram After Her Israel-Palestine Post Sparked Backlash

What do we expect from celebrities right now?

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Albanese’s failure on Gaza isn’t just opportunism, it’s a return of the ALP’s White Australia racism

Labor only changes if you tear it a new one and make it wear it as a hat. Middle East groups must break away and run against it.

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The PM is heading to China and the relationship with Beijing has thawed. But will trade ever return to normal?

Economic ties are expected to feature heavily during the first visit by an Australian PM since 2016, amid a gradual easing of export restrictions

The Guardian - AU

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Hope but uncertainty for Aussies in Gaza as exit opens

More Australians have escaped Gaza, crossing into Egypt to await commercial flights home as bombs continue to rain down on the besieged strip.

AAP

Albanese to raise human rights and trade with Xi in first China visit by Australian PM since 2016

Ahead of trip signalling emergence from diplomatic deep freeze, Albanese also calls on Beijing to again allow Australian journalists to report from mainland

The Guardian - AU

Actor and Sydney peace prize winner Nazanin Boniadi urges Australia to sanction key Iranian officials

Activist says regime officials such as Eisa Zarepour, who did his PhD at University of NSW, should be disempowered and de-platformed

The Guardian - AU

Australian MPs walk a difficult line on Israel-Hamas conflict

The failure of the Voice referendum appeared to confirm Australians broadly reject propositions they believe to be characterised by divisiveness. There are few geopolitical circumstances more polarising than the drastic flaring of conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.

The Conversation

Afternoon Update: Australia toughens stance as Gaza death toll soars; woman found dead at Bendigo home; and Australians eat too much salt

Foreign minister Penny Wong says the world will ‘not accept’ continuing civilian deaths in Gaza

The Guardian - AU

Penny Wong urges Israel to ‘listen’ to friends and warns world won’t ‘accept continuing civilian deaths’

Foreign minister’s call comes as six former prime ministers issue joint statement expressing solidarity with Jewish and Palestinian communities

The Guardian - AU

Optimism China might lift more export trade bans

There is growing optimism China could lift further tariffs on Australian products as Anthony Albanese prepares to visit the country.

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The Guardian - AU

Icac says Berejiklian inquiry sent ‘clear message’ – as it happened

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Six former prime ministers urge end to religious hatred

Former Australian prime ministers from both sides of the political divide are calling for the community to unite behind Israelis and Palestinians.

The Guardian - AU

Australia abstains from UN resolution calling for truce in Gaza, prompting criticism at home

Representative explains resolution ‘did not recognise terror group Hamas as perpetrator of 7 October attack’

AAP

Warning for Australians in Lebanon amid conflict

The government has again warned Australians about the volatile security situation in Lebanon as Israel's war on Hamas threatens to spread across the region.

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The Guardian - AU

Tony Burke says people have right to grieve Gaza deaths and backs flying Palestinian flag in Australia

Senior Labor minister and western Sydney MP supports Penny Wong’s call for humanitarian ‘pause’ and notes Israeli minister’s use of term ‘human animals’

The Canberra Times

What you missed on Senate estimates, day four

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: US mass shooting kills at least 16; Sydney woman found dead identified; and Gen Z want less sex on screen

A man is reported to have opened fire at a bowling alley and bar in Maine’s second-largest city of Lewiston in the US

The Guardian - AU

EU leaders unanimously call for humanitarian corridors – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Wong acknowledges ‘widespread suffering’, stops short of describing Israel’s Gaza siege as collective punishment

Challenged to concede Israel was inflicting ‘collective punishment’ on Gaza, foreign minister Penny Wong used her own words to describe the ‘distressing crisis’ unfolding in the Palestinian exclave

AAP

Australia bans screwdrivers, nuclear reactors to Russia

A tranche of export bans to Russia of machinery equipment has been put in place by Australia as the Kremlin continues its war against Ukraine.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Australia calls for humanitarian pauses in Gaza; Polish bishop resigns after gay orgy scandal; and Vegemite turns 100

Australia’s foreign minister, Penny Wong, says essential supplies must ‘reach people in desperate need’

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