Day: August 13, 2025
Coalition says government has handed Hamas a ‘massive propaganda victory’, despite Albanese’s vow that terrorist group would be excluded from any future Palestinian state
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The federal government has condemned Hamas for seeking to “manipulate facts for their own propaganda” after it was reported the terrorist group had welcomed Australia’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state.
Anthony Albanese announced on Monday that Australia would recognise Palestine at the United Nations next month, joining more than 140 countries – about three-quarters of UN membership – who already recognise a Palestinian state.
US state department says Labour government ‘repeatedly intervened to chill speech’ online after Southport attack
The Trump administration has accused the UK of backsliding on human rights over the past year, citing antisemitic violence and “serious restrictions” on free speech.
The annual US state department assessment, which analyses human rights conditions worldwide, highlighted laws limiting speech around abortion clinics, as well as the way government officials “repeatedly intervened to chill speech” online after the 2024 Southport attack.
Murray Watt and Sussan Ley survey devastation in Adelaide as scientists call for urgent funding for affected species
Scientists have called for urgent funding for recovery measures for species affected by a catastrophic algal bloom off South Australia as images emerged of a dead dolphin that washed up on a beach in Adelaide.
The call comes in response to an Albanese government announcement that it would fast-track an expert assessment of the impact of the crisis on marine life, similar to a step taken after the black summer bushfire crisis.
For some the only hope is treatment abroad, but not all survive the long, desperate wait for Israel’s approval
Abdel Karim Wahdan no longer has the energy to speak. When visitors arrive, the eight-year-old pretends to be sleeping so that no one looks at him. Between his frequent dialysis sessions, he cries. His bones hurt, he says.
Abdel Karim is dying. His death should be preventable but because he lives in Gaza he cannot access the treatment that would save his life. What started as acute kidney failure is now chronic: his small body has begun to swell and he spends his days between hospital beds and injections that he hates.