BILL Shorten has landed in Israel for the commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the charge at Beersheba, with a dig at Malcolm Turnbull while pledging to leave partisan politics at home.
Speaking to reporters at Jerusalem’s famous King David Hotel, the opposition leader said he was in Israel to pay tribute to the charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba and it was his intention when travelling overseas to not forensically engage in domestic Australian politics.
“But there are perhaps two points I will briefly make — I think that all of this current turmoil and chaos in the Australian Government and the Australian Parliament could have been avoided if Turnbull had simply stood Joyce aside until the High Court had made its decision,” he said.
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