PM waiting weeks for Israel call

Australian bureaucrats are “still seeking to arrange” a call between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Appearing at a Senate estimates hearing on Monday afternoon, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade bureaucrats confirmed the department had initially reached out to their Israeli counterparts on October 8, the day after the first attacks on Israeli citizens by Hamas broke out, but were yet to confirm a call.

“He’s put a request in it seems to Mr Netanyahu, and it’s telling that Mr Netanyahu hasn’t taken that call,” Mr Dutton said in an interview on 2GB earlier this month. In questioning from Liberal senator Simon Birmingham, DFAT deputy secretary, Scott Dewar, said the prime ministers previously spoke on April 4 earlier this year.The Prime Minister touched down in Washington DC, where he will hold meetings with US President Joe Biden and other political leaders.A tense spat has erupted over why a man under investigation for historical child-sex offences was allowed to keep working in an Australian embassy.

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