Floating the idea of moving Australia’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem was “a really dumb thing” for the Morrison government to do, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says.
The suggestion was made on the eve of the by-election in Wentworth, held to replace Mr Turnbull after he was dumped as Liberal leader and quit parliament.
Ultimately, the government decided not to move the embassy.
“Whatever your views on the merits of that, I thought the timing was just calculated to win support … It showed a patronising insensitivity to the Jewish community,” Mr Turnbull told the Australian Jewish News on Thursday.
Read the article by Katina Curtis, AAP Senior Political Writer in the St.George & Sutherland Shire Leader.