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Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
April 19, 2019, 12:00 am
Committed to West Jerusalem as capital
COMMUNAL leaders have welcomed the opening of a new Australian Trade and Defence Office in Jerusalem as a sign of Australia's continued commitment to recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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".
Greens candidate for Macnamara, Steph Hodgins-May.
April 5, 2019, 12:00 am
Greens’ post slammed
JEWISH leaders have expressed their disgust at a gibe by a Greens staffer working for Macnamara candidate Steph Hodgins-May that deaths in Gaza were Israeli "genocide".
By Peter Kohn
Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch
March 29, 2019, 12:00 am
Australia backs Israel at the UN
SCOTT Morrison's government has received kudos from the Jewish community for its stand against a spate of anti-Israel resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
By Peter Kohn
An Israeli house hit by a Hamas rocket this week. Photo: Israel Police
March 28, 2019, 12:00 am
Australian Jewish leaders condemn Hamas attacks
JEWISH community leaders in Australia have condemned a barrage of Hamas rocket attacks against civilians in central Israel this week. 
By Peter Kohn
Meir Kahane addresses his followers during a demonstration in Jerusalem in 1984. Photo: Nati Harnik/GPO
February 28, 2019, 12:01 am
‘A betrayal of Jewish values’
THE Benjamin Netanyahu-brokered merger of Israel's Jewish Home party with the far-right Jewish Power has been met with unanimous concern from Australia's peak Jewish groups.
Scott Morrison speaking in Parliament.
February 21, 2019, 12:01 am
‘A rare show of unity’
THE Morrison government "will not turn a blind eye to an antisemitic agenda masquerading as defence of human rights in the UN", Prime Minister Scott Morrison said this week.
By Gareth Narunsky
Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad faces the media on Monday. Photo: AP Photo/Yam G-Jun
January 31, 2019, 12:01 am
Disqualified!
THE International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has stripped Malaysia of the right to host the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships.
By Gareth Narunsky
Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaking at the Sydney Institute last Saturday. Photo: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
December 20, 2018, 6:45 pm
Mixed reaction to Prime Minister’s announcement
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has called Labor's pledge to reverse the Morrison government's recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel's capital "hasty and ill-advised".
By Gareth Narunsky
Benjamin Netanyahu addressing the UN General Assembly last week. Photo: AP Photo/Richard Drew
October 4, 2018, 12:01 am
Bibi’s bombshells
THE Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has labelled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's United Nations General Assembly speech "compelling", identifying Bibi's revelation of a secret atomic warehouse in Tehran a "key moment".
By Gareth Narunsky
President Bill Clinton (centre), presiding over ceremonies marking the signing of the 1993 peace accord between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on September 13, 1993. Photo: AP Photo/Ron Edmonds
September 13, 2018, 12:01 am
Twenty-five years on
JEWISH community leaders in Australia have offered mixed reflections on the quarter century since the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians were signed in a ceremony on the White House lawn on September 13, 1993.
By Peter Kohn
Palestinian students outside a UNRWA school in Beirut. Photo: EPA/Nabil Mounzer
September 6, 2018, 12:01 am
Palestinian aid shake-up ‘welcome’
AUSTRALIAN Jewish community leaders have praised a move by the US to cut the entire American aid budget to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provides aid to the Palestinians.
By Peter Kohn
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull arrive at Admiralty House. Photo: Noel Kessel
August 30, 2018, 12:01 am
‘I feel very much at home in the Jewish community’
FORMER PM Malcolm Turnbull has paid tribute to the Jewish community for its support as he reflected on his 15 years in Parliament in an interview with The AJN.
By Gareth Narunsky
From left: Jeremy Jones, Labor Senators Anthony Chisholm and Kristina Keneally, Colin Rubenstein.
August 22, 2018, 12:17 pm
Keneally and co return from Rambam
Labor Senators Kristina Keneally and Anthony Chisholm addressed an Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council briefing earlier this month after participating in a recent Rambam study program to Israel.
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