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Bob Carr, seen on a visit to Israel during his time as foreign minister (photo credit: Yossi Zamir)
April 10, 2014, 9:42 pm
Australian Jews slam charges against pro-Israel lobby
Former foreign minister Bob Carr had said group’s ‘extraordinary influence’ is ‘unhealthy’
By JTA
Bob Carr, seen on a visit to Israel during his time as foreign minister (photo credit: Yossi Zamir)
April 9, 2014, 5:15 pm
Former Australian foreign minister attacks ‘pro-Israel lobby’
Bob Carr decries ‘unhealthy’ influence over Canberra’s foreign policy, which has been ‘subcontracted’ to Jewish donors
By Raphael Ahren
A woman points at Australia's opposition leader Tony Abbott while he waits to cast his vote at Freshwater Surf Life Saving Club polling station in Sydney, Australia, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Rob Griffith)
September 7, 2013, 5:06 pm
Conservative, pro-Israel candidate wins Aussie election
Labor Party, six years in power, concedes defeat to Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party-led coalition
By AP and ToI Staff
Tony Abbott. (CC BY David Jackmanson, Flickr)
August 26, 2013, 6:30 am
Aussie opposition head looks to ‘rebuild’ Canberra-Jerusalem ties
Tony Abbott says he will restore ‘rock-solid friendship,’ expected to unveil platform that includes crackdown on BDS
By Joshua Davidovich and AP
Canberra Parliament House, Australia (Wikimedia Commons/Mark Pegrum CC BY-SA)
July 2, 2013, 6:28 pm
Australia’s new deputy PM a supporter of Palestinians
Labor’s Anthony Albanese founded Parliamentary Friends of Palestine; critical of efforts to boycott Israel
May 16, 2013, 10:06 am
Australian lawmakers sign anti-Semitism declaration
Jewish politician Joshua Frydenberg facilitates signing by 40 Liberal National Party members
Left to right, Raoul Wallenberg at a young age; at age 32 with an aged-processed photo in the smaller box; and an FBI sketch of how Wallenberg may have looked in the 1980s. (Photo credit: courtesy of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – Horace Heafne and The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation/JTA)
May 7, 2013, 10:26 am
Raoul Wallenberg named Australia’s first honorary citizen
Prime Minister Gillard addresses official ceremony in Canberra
Former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard, the first Australian parliamentarian to sign the London Declaration, is photographed at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem in 2009. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)
From the WebApril 30, 2013, 6:10 pm
Julia Gillard denounces activists as anti-Israel protest turns anti-Semitic
The Australian: Demonstrations against opening of University of NSW Max Brenner store attack ‘Jews and Jew lovers’
April 25, 2013, 10:41 am
Australia pledges to combat anti-Semitism
Prime Minister Julia Gillard signs London declaration previously adopted by 40 countries
Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (Courtesy Yad Vashem)
April 15, 2013, 12:48 pm
Australia makes Raoul Wallenberg first honorary citizen
Swedish diplomat stationed in Hungary saved thousands of Jews during World War II before vanishing
By Gavriel Fiske
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard (photo credit: AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)
January 30, 2013, 11:49 am
Australian PM schedules elections for Yom Kippur
Voting is compulsory down under, but observant Jews can vote by mail
By Gabe Fisher and AP
A woman comforts a young girl during a vigil service for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, at St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Andrew Gombert)
December 15, 2012, 6:00 pm
‘We in Israel understand the shock and agony,’ Netanyahu tells Obama after Connecticut slaughter
Israeli leaders send condolences in aftermath of school shooting; ‘there is nothing more shocking that the murder of children,’ says Peres
By ToI Staff and AP
Julia Gillard, then Australia's deputy prime minister, meets Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem, June 2009 (photo credit: Assaf Ravitz/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)
November 29, 2012, 3:33 am
Australian PM facing backlash from Jewish groups over PA statehood abstention
Despite strong history of Israel support, Julia Gillard forced by own party to not oppose UN vote, drawing fire from Jewish groups and Israeli Embassy
By Joshua Davidovich
November 26, 2012, 4:33 am
Child sex abuse scandal rocks Australia’s Jewish community
New case, details of which have been suppressed, comes on the heels of Prime Minister Gillard’s announcement of an inquiry into institutional abuse
By Dan Goldberg
A member of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, which killed 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, during the 1972 Munich Olympics. (AP/Kurt Strumpf)
June 26, 2012, 8:08 pm
US, Australia and Germany urge Olympic moment of silence for 1972 Munich victims
Australian legislators vote for the motion by standing in silence
By Philip Podolsky and JTA
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