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Labor's Josh Burns won the Melbourne seat of Macnamara.
May 23, 2019, 12:00 am
Macnamara’s first MP
Labor's Josh Burns won the Melbourne seat of Macnamara, making him the newest Jewish Member of Parliament.
By Peter Kohn
Mark Dreyfus (right) with ALP leader Bill Shorten at the Kotel.
May 15, 2019, 4:02 pm
On his Mark
Speaking with Peter Kohn, Jewish ALP frontbencher Mark Dreyfus shares his visions for Australia and his hope of becoming a senior minister in a Shorten government.
By Peter Kohn
Wayne Kurnorth
May 2, 2019, 12:00 am
Labor’s latest pains
LABOR has dumped a Northern Territory Senate hopeful who had shared antisemitic conspiracy theories on Facebook.
By Gareth Narunsky
From left: Victorian MP Martin Foley, ALP Macnamara candidate Josh Burns and Deputy ALP Leader Tanya Plibersek at Burns’ campaign launch. Photo: Simon Kosmer
April 19, 2019, 12:00 am
Plibersek at Burns launch
AN enthusiastic crowd of ALP supporters packed into St Kilda's Hotel Esplanade for the launch of Josh Burns' bid to keep Macnamara in Labor hands.
By Peter Kohn
Josh Wilson speaking in Parliament last year. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
April 18, 2019, 12:00 am
‘An insult to our national debate’
AS the Australian Labor Party battles against anti-Israel elements within its ranks, leader Bill Shorten has stressed that a "Shorten Labor government will be committed to maintaining close ties with Israel".
Melissa Parke.
April 13, 2019, 6:15 pm
WA Labor candidate quits over Israel comments
OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten says Labor’s candidate for the WA seat of Curtin Melissa Parke did the “right thing” after withdrawing from the election contest over controversial comments she made about Israel.
By Gareth Narunsky
Applause for Michael Danby and an embrace from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten last week. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
April 12, 2019, 12:00 am
‘The last MP for Melbourne Ports’
Michael Danby has reflected on his 20 years in politics as he delivered his valedictory speech to Federal Parliament.
From left: Josh Burns, Steph Hodgins-May and Kate Ashmor as the Great Debate became heated. Photos: Peter Haskin
April 11, 2019, 12:00 am
Sparks fly at Macnamara candidates’ debate
Labor's Josh Burns, Liberal Kate Ashmor and the Greens' Steph Hodgins-May addressed a raft of issues at the Great Debate for Macnamara last Sunday.
By Peter Kohn
Mount Scopus principal Rabbi James Kennard (left) with ALP candidate Josh Burns at Caulfield Hospital last Sunday. Photo: Simon Kosmer
April 4, 2019, 9:26 am
Mount Scopus heading to Caulfield?
MOUNT Scopus College's dream of moving the entire school to Caulfield could be confirmed within 18 months.
By Peter Kohn
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: Peter Haskin
March 22, 2019, 12:00 am
Morrison stands by Jerusalem plans
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has issued an emphatic warning about the gulf between the Coalition government's policies on Israel and those of the ALP.
By Peter Kohn
Bob Carr has backed the move within the WA Labor Party. Photo: AFP PHOTO/Saeed Khan.
July 28, 2017, 12:01 am
WA ALP now voting on Palestine recognition
JEWISH leaders have voiced concern over reports that a vote in Western Australia could become the next stage in a creeping move within the ALP to grant unconditional recognition to a Palestinian state.
Tony Burke (left) and Bob Carr. Photo: AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim
July 27, 2017, 12:01 am
How to win the war for Israel
AS a famous Jewish broadcaster might have said, let’s tell it like it is. The war for Israel is being lost. It’s being lost in branch meetings and conferences and membership numbers and political parties across the world; it’s being lost on cable news and in university classrooms and in Facebook threads and on Twitter posts and in arguments around a million tables in a million cities.
Pastor Munganbana Norman Miller and his wife Barbara.
July 24, 2017, 12:01 am
ALP on a ‘dangerous path’
IT’S a long way from Cairns to Jerusalem, but the distance is shrinking, at least metaphorically, thanks to a group of Indigenous Australians who are committed to seeking justice for Israel in the harsh courts of international public opinion.
Bob Carr speaking at an ALP policy forum on Palestine at Canterbury-Hurlstone RSL Club in Sydney on June 27. Photo: Shane Desiatnik
June 29, 2017, 12:01 am
Carr’s conference call
LABOR frontbencher Anthony Albanese has refused to distance himself from comments by his former colleague Bob Carr who said this week that the ALP should “light up the sky with a resolution that says the next Labor federal government will recognise Palestine”.
By Shane Desiatnik
Co-convener of the SA Parliamentary Friends of Palestine, Tony Piccolo.
June 29, 2017, 12:00 am
SA supports Palestine recognition
JEWISH leaders have expressed their deep disappointment at the South Australian Parliament’s vote to ask Canberra to recognise a Palestinian state, the first time an Australian parliament has done so.
By Peter Kohn
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