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As the US chooses destruction over diplomacy in Iran, Australia has to decide between principle and prostration | Allan Behm

ByAllan Behm

Australia, like Little Sir Echo, whimpers after the world’s premier bully bombs the ‘bully of the Middle East’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe bully of the Middle East, as President Trump called Iran, has had its nuclear e…

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As the US chooses destruction over diplomacy in Iran, Australia has to decide between principle and prostration | Allan Behm

ByAllan Behm

Australia, like Little Sir Echo, whimpers after the world’s premier bully bombs the ‘bully of the Middle East’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe bully of the Middle East, as President Trump called Iran, has had its nuclear e…

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PM backs Iran strikes but says Australia is ‘deeply concerned about any escalation’

ByJosh Butler and Dan Jervis-Bardy

Penny Wong refuses to say whether Pine Gap communications facility in NT was used in US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sitesAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says A…

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PM backs Iran strikes but says Australia is ‘deeply concerned about any escalation’

ByJosh Butler and Dan Jervis-Bardy

Penny Wong refuses to say whether Pine Gap communications facility in NT was used in US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sitesAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese says A…

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Australia must stand firm in its support for a rules-based order and reject any US requests for military aid | Donald Rothwell

ByDonald Rothwell

Labor governments have a proud history of supporting the UN charter. The Albanese government must continue itAmerica’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities has no legitimacy under international law and carries significant implications for Australia. T…

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Australia must stand firm in its support for a rules-based order and reject any US requests for military aid | Donald Rothwell

ByDonald Rothwell

Labor governments have a proud history of supporting the UN charter. The Albanese government must continue itAmerica’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities has no legitimacy under international law and carries significant implications for Australia. T…

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Iranian Australians are worried about Israeli and US strikes – and fearful of Khamenei’s cornered regime

ByLuca Ittimani

Melbourne man Kambiz Razmara says ‘our communities in Iran [face] further devastation, further oppression … it’s just a no-win situation for the Iranians’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAli’s mother and uncles live less than …

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Iranian Australians are worried about Israeli and US strikes – and fearful of Khamenei’s cornered regime

ByLuca Ittimani

Melbourne man Kambiz Razmara says ‘our communities in Iran [face] further devastation, further oppression … it’s just a no-win situation for the Iranians’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAli’s mother and uncles live less than …

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Albanese government criticised for ‘weak’ response to US attacks on Iran as experts decry ‘flagrant breach’ of law

ByDan Jervis-Bardy

Former adviser to Penny Wong argues Australia should make clear ‘we are a country that stands up … for the rules-based order’Australia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia has said Iran’…

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Australia urged to press US to ‘act responsibly’ as threat of nuclear disaster rises amid Israel-Iran conflict

ByBen Doherty

Nobel prize-winning anti-nuclear group calls for ‘urgent de-escalation and a return to diplomacy’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican) has described the escalating confli…