Albanese wants international cover before Australia recognises Palestine as a state
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Anthony Albanese will recall well when another Labor prime minister was feeling the heat over Palestinian status.
It was 2012 and then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard was forced into a corner over the stand Australia should take on a motion to give Palestine observer status at the United Nations.
Gillard and her foreign minister, Bob Carr, clashed...
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