Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the opposition leader will be away from parliament on the first sitting day as they attend the funeral for Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon, the son of former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon. In the Senate, the federal government has defended its decision to resume funding to the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the opposition leader will be away from parliament on the first sitting day as they attend the funeral for Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon , the son of former defence minister Joel Fitzgibbon. Government defends decision to restore funding to UNRWA In the Senate, the federal government has defended its decision to resume funding to the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians .
In January, Australia joined a number of other countries and froze funding after Israel alleged 12 of the agency's 13,000 staff had links to Hamas or were involved in the October 7 attacks. Today (who was on leave after getting married on the weekend) told the senate it was the government's strong belief that the funding would reach those in need in Gaza. The Greens then questioned if the government would apologise for pausing the funding in the first place, which Senator Farrell said it would no
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