Geographically, eastern Australia is about as far from Israel and Gaza as anyone can get. But given the Australian government’s provocative decision to recognise a Palestinian state while Hamas still exists, you could be forgiven for thinking the conflict is being fought on our doorstep. And on Tuesday, it was revealed that, in a very real sense, it is.
Thanks to Iran and the IRGC, and at least partly because of the anti-Jewish hostility that has afflicted Australia since 7 October, the Gaza conflict has been brought here
In a dramatic press conference outside his Parliament House office in Canberra, Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese, flanked by his home and foreign affairs ministers and the heads of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and the Australian Security Intelligenc