Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tells world leaders that formal recognition of a Palestinian state will break a "cycle of violence" and offer the people "real hope for a place they can call home."

Albanese is due to address the UN General Assembly in New York City hours after Australia formally recognised a Palestinian state.

"Working together, we can build a future where instead of children in Gaza dying in pain, living in fear, or being taught to hate - they can go to school, build a 'life in larger freedom', aspire to raise children of their own," he will say on Tuesday morning AEST.

"That future depends on recognition being followed by reconstruction and reform."

In his speech he will mention Galit Carbone, the Australian killed on October 7, when Hamas ter

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