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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is calling for the protection of civilians in Gaza following a hospital blast that killed hundreds of people.

Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says he won't accept funding with strings attached and will work with Australia as China flexes its muscle in the Pacific.

More than 200 Australians evacuated from Israel have arrived home, as the government looks to secure safe passage for those stuck in Gaza.

Richard Marles says the government is working with other countries on humanitarian corridors out but it remains an ‘extremely difficult’ situation

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Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Nampijimpa Price says the Coalition will pursue its plan for an inquiry into the money spent on Indigenous Australians — despite it having little chance of success, and girls as young as 12 and 13 are being strip-searched by NSW police in what has been…

Australians in Gaza are being told to make their way to a border crossing in the hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough that would enable a humanitarian corridor.

Both sides of politics are pledging to focus on closing the Indigenous disadvantage gap after a referendum to constitutionally enshrine an advisory body failed.

All hate speech, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, must be condemned, the foreign minister says as Israel-Palestine tensions simmer in Australia.

Of the 255 people who took the repatriation flights, Clare O’Neil says, most are Australian citizens and family members

Federal parliament has expressed its solidarity with Israel and emphatically condemned Hamas' attacks, while plans are under way to evacuate more Australians.