Australia’s new deputy prime minister, Anthony Albanese, said he is “very critical of a lot of Israel’s policies” and is a founding member of the Parliamentary Friends of Palestine group.
Australia’s former prime minister, Kevin Rudd, who expelled an Israeli Mossad agent from Canberra in 2010, was re-elected to help the government remain in power.
A Jewish legislator in Australia has cast doubt on a newspaper report suggesting that the country’s foreign minister recommended abstaining at the U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood.
