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Iran players pose for a team photo ahead of the Women's Asian Cup soccer match between Iran and the Philippines in Robina, Australia, on March 8, 2026. (Dave Hunt/AAP Image via AP)
March 8, 2026, 6:18 pm
Iranian soccer team exits Women’s Asian Cup and faces tricky prospect of return home
Petition urging Australia to protect women athletes from persecution by Islamic Republic gets 50,000 signatures; team was silent during national anthem before opening match Monday
By AP
President Isaac Herzog attends a conference of the Ofek pre-military academies, held at the Jerusalem International Convention Center, on February 5, 2026. (Flash90)
February 7, 2026, 3:26 am
Protests planned as Herzog’s upcoming visit to Australia prompts anti-Israel outcry
President set to meet with Australian PM and families of Bondi terror attack victims, as anti-Israel groups, including progressive Jewish group, call for his arrest
By Grace Gilson
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks at the US State Department, December 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
December 28, 2025, 3:25 pm
After Hanukkah attack, Australian FM says she’s ‘desperately sorry’ about antisemitism
Penny Wong pledges to clamp down on hate speech, guns; PM Albanese ends interview after he’s shown old clip of him speaking at anti-Israel rally with Hezbollah flag in background
By ToI Staff
This handout photo taken and released by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on December 10, 2024 shows Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) and members of the local Jewish community visiting the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 10, 2024, after it was set ablaze on December 6. (Handout / DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)
November 27, 2025, 11:52 am
Australia lists Iran’s IRGC as state sponsor of terrorism over antisemitic attacks
Foreign Ministry says Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps orchestrated arson incidents in Sydney and Melbourne in 2024 to ‘sow division’ by targeting Jewish Australians
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Director-General of ASIO Mike Burgess speak to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, August 26, 2025. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch)
August 26, 2025, 9:32 am
Australia says Tehran behind two antisemitic arson attacks, expels Iranian ambassador
PM Albanese says Australian diplomats in Tehran moved to safety in third country; Canberra to designate Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as terrorist organization
By Jacob Magid and Agencies
(L) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem on August 10, 2025 (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP) and (R) Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a press conference in Canberra on August 11, 2025. (Hilary Wardhaugh / AFP)
August 19, 2025, 1:36 pm
Netanyahu: Australia PM a ‘weak politician who betrayed Israel, abandoned Australian Jews’
Unprecedented personal attack on Albanese comes amid spiraling diplomatic crisis; Canberra’s FM: Israeli government pushing nation toward international isolation
By ToI Staff and AFP
Handout photo released by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) official Sepah News Telegram channel on June 13, 2025 shows smoke billowing from a site apparently targeted by an Israeli strike in the capital Tehran early in the morning. (Sepah News / AFP)
June 13, 2025, 9:15 am
As Israel hits Iran, prayers, fortitude at home amid alarm, concern from abroad
Coalition and opposition lawmakers declare support for Iran strikes; mixed responses from US; UN chief urges restraint as Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and UAE condemn strikes
By Stuart Winer, Agencies and ToI Staff
People gather around the car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen, that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. (AFP)
August 5, 2024, 8:42 am
Israel says Australian probe into Gaza aid worker deaths ‘omitted crucial details’
Embassy cites ‘some misrepresentations’; investigation found April strike that killed 7 in World Central Kitchen aid convoy was due to operational errors, ‘mistaken identification’
By AFP
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Adelaide on June 16, 2024. (Asanka Ratnayake / POOL / AFP)
July 25, 2024, 9:03 am
Australia slaps sanctions on 7 extremist settlers over attacks on Palestinians
Foreign Minister Penny Wong also says it’s blacklisting group called ‘Hilltop Youth,’ despite no such organization formally existing
By Agencies and ToI Staff
File - Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki (R) receives Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong (L), in Palestinian Authority-controlled Ramallah, in the West Bank, January 17, 2024. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)
April 9, 2024, 5:48 pm
Australian FM says Canberra to consider recognizing Palestinian state
Australia joins several nations now mulling step that Israel vehemently opposes, saying it is a key way forward to ending the conflict
By Agencies and ToI Staff
File: Then-chief of the Australian Defense Force air chief marshal Mark Binskin at the Royal Military College, Duntroon Canberra, Australia, Monday, April 6, 2015 (AP Photo/Peter Parks, Pool)
April 8, 2024, 2:17 pm
Canberra taps former defense chief to scrutinize killing of Australian aid worker
Zomi Frankcom was among 7 World Central Kitchen staff killed by Israeli strike in Gaza; ex-military chief Mark Binskin appointed after Australia calls IDF probe ‘unsatisfactory’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on March 20, 2024. (David Gray/AFP)
April 6, 2024, 10:27 am
Australia to appoint envoy to probe aid worker deaths, says Israeli steps insufficient
Canberra tells Jerusalem that ‘initial responses suggest that the gravity of the death of seven humanitarian workers is yet to be appreciated by the Israeli government’
By Agencies
UN workers are pictured at a UNRWA warehouse/distribution center in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which was partially hit by an strike on March 13, 2024, amid the war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas.(Mohammed Abed/AFP)
March 16, 2024, 4:18 am
Australia to resume funding for UNRWA, pledges further aid for Gaza
‘UNRWA is not a terrorist organization,’ says Australian FM after Israeli allegations that some of the UN Palestinian refugee agency’s staff took part in October 7 onslaught
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Melbourne, Australia, March 5, 2024. (Hamish Blair/AP Photo)
March 12, 2024, 9:25 am
Australia says Israel must change course in Gaza to keep international support
Foreign Minister Penny Wong backs Biden’s criticism of Netanyahu’s war policies, urges Israel to address ‘humanitarian catastrophe’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Palestinian terrorists walk and drive away from a kibbutz near the border fence with the Gaza Strip, while carrying out a devastating cross-border attack in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. (AP Photo)
January 27, 2024, 1:23 pm
Israel wants UNRWA out of Gaza after staffers fired for involvement in Oct. 7 onslaught
FM Katz demands UN ‘take immediate personal actions’ against UNRWA leadership; after US halts funding, Canada and Australia also announce pause
By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Agencies
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