Prominent Victorian Labor backbencher Michael Danby has accused former Foreign Minister Bob Carr of being behind a NSW motion pushing for the unconditional recognition of a Palestinian state.
Mr Danby accused Mr Carr, who now heads the Australian China Relations Institute at Sydney’s University of Technology, of orchestrating the change and being “gutless” for not being open about his role.
Federal Labor’s position on the Israeli-Palestinian issue is that it supports a two-state solution but only commits the party in government to “discuss” joining like-minded nations in recognising a Palestinian state if there is no progress in peace talks.
Read the report by Primrose Riordan, political reporter for The Australian.