CANBERRA, Australia (AP) – Australia’s ruling conservative coalition won a surprise victory in the country’s general election on Saturday, defying opinion polls that had tipped the centre-left opposition party to oust it from power and promising an end to the revolving door of national leaders.
It seems everyone has caught the same bug. In the past hour, the left-wing Labor party, the Haredi United Torah Judaism party and the far-right Union of Right-Wing Party have all repeated their claims that they’re headed for “collapse” at the polls.
An Australian newspaper editor who believes migration is a ‘privilege’ and new arrivals ‘should learn English’ has been attacked by members of the left wing Labor Party.
TEL AVIV – In a dramatic departure from the party’s traditional position, Labor chief Avi Gabbay said that any deal with the Palestinians he would be involved in would not include evacuating West Bank settlements.
Contents: Britain’s Labor party makes dramatic U-turn on Brexit policy proposals; UK’s Tory government struggles with Brexit policy positions; Ireland calls Theresa May’s Irish border proposal ‘delusional’
The New South Wales (NSW) branch of Australia’s Labor party has voted to recognize the state of “Palestine” amid a larger push for Palestinian statehood recognition on the federal level.
TEL AVIV – “If Australian money was spent on building [Hamas terror] tunnels, that is beyond the pale,” Australian MP Michael Danby said Sunday.
Contents: Nationalistic tensions increase as UK and EU drift towards Brexit; Japan’s government calls emergency meeting as yen surges after Brexit; Israel and Turkey announcing a reconciliation agreement on Monday
The Jerusalem Post reports: Labor leader Isaac Herzog and the party’s secretary-general, MK Hilik Bar, will hold a crucial meeting on Monday to decide when to hold a convention that will kick off a race for the party chairmanship.
The Jerusalem Post reports: If elections were held today, the Likud would lose a number of Knesset seats but still maintain a plurality in parliament while Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid faction becomes the second-largest party in the legislature, according to
The Times of Israel reports: Senior Zionist Union lawmaker MK Shelly Yachimovich leveled heavy criticism on her Knesset faction’s leader, Isaac Herzog, Sunday morning over his proposal to unilaterally disengage from West Bank territories rather than engage in talks with
Britain’s polling organizations fail disastrously; Pre-election polls and Chaos Theory; British and Israeli elections reflected nationalistic surges; Trends in American politics
After surviving a “spill motion” that could have seen disgruntled members of his own Liberal Party knock him out of his seat, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott lashed Labor as hard as he struck back at opponents within his own party, in an evidently successful bid to contrast himself with the chaos of Labor government.
