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Matthew Knott

Matthew Knott

Matthew Knott is the foreign affairs and national security correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Hillel Newman.

Israeli ambassador says it’s ‘mind-boggling’ to question legal basis for war on Iran

Israel’s new ambassador says Australia was on the “right side of history” by backing strikes against Iran as he warned against calls for a ceasefire.

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Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney at Parliament House in Canberra.

A political rock star comes to Canberra. Did he match the hype?

The Canadian prime minister set the foreign policy world alight with a speech early this year. He arrived in Australia on a mission to show that middle powers matter.

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Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney addressing the Australian parliament.

Carney: Australia and Canada must ‘combine for strength’ or face domination

The Canadian prime minister said smaller nations were concluding that they must pursue “greater strategic autonomy” in an era of great power competition.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, with Assistant Treasurer Daniel Mulino,

‘The world needs us’: Carney pushes Australia and Canada to deepen trade, defence ties

Australian and Canadian troops would move easily between each other’s facilities under a new agreement being pushed by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during question time on Tuesday.

‘Frightening’: Labor luminary hits out at Australian support for Iran strikes

The former foreign minister’s comments came after opposition frontbencher Andrew Hastie said he was comfortable with the US demonstrating its strength as a deterrence to adversarial nations.

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Flights from Australia to Doha and several other airports in the Middle East are affected.

‘Serious failure’: Coalition accuses government of failing to warn Australians to leave Middle East

Penny Wong said it would be “very difficult” to organise repatriation flights for Australians stuck in the region because of the closure of airspace.

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Russian-origin oil has continued flowing into Australia despite an official ban.

Oil companies put on notice over Russian ‘blood oil’

Fuel importers have been warned they could be breaching Australian sanctions law by importing Russian-origin oil processed in third countries.

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Virginia Bell has held a private meeting with victims and their families from the Bondi attack.

Commissioner assures Bondi families she will probe Hanukkah security, police delays

New laws will grant immunity to security officers testifying at the Royal Commission on Anti-Semitism and Social Cohesion.

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The Iranian women’s football team has arrived in Australia to play in the Asian Cup.

Fears Iranian Revolutionary Guards coming to Australia with Asian Cup team

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been listed as a terror group, but there are concerns those with close links to the entity have entered Australia.

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Zvi Yehezkeli is due to speak at fundraising events in Sydney and Melbourne in March.

Burke under pressure to bar Israeli journalist who would ‘fan the flames of racism’

Zvi Yehezkeli, who said 100,000 Palestinians should have been killed at the start of the war in Gaza, is scheduled to visit Australia for events in March.

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