Adding to his earlier comments, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has told Nine’s Today program Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s push for Palestinian statehood is about Australia showing it is a “serious player” in forming solutions to the Middle East conflict.
Albanese denied it was impossible to completely extricate Hamas from Palestine.
“It has no role to play in the Middle East, but we need justice for Palestinians. We know that there’s been this cycle, cycle of violence over a long period of time, my entire lifetime,” he…



