Former Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull Tells Netanyahu to ‘Stay Out of Our Politics’
December 17, 2025
Australia’s democracy is not for sale.
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English Script:
Interviewer: Hours after this terrible incident happened, he very openly blamed your prime minister, Anthony Albanese, by saying that the recognition of Palestine was pouring fuel on anti-Semitism in Australia, and that the government was weak in its response to those warning signs. Do you buy that criticism from the Israeli government?
Malcolm Turnbull: No, no, I do not. And I would respectfully say to Bibi Netanyahu, please stay out of our politics. If you’ve got that kind of commentary to make, you are not helping. I know Netanyahu, I know I’m pretty well, actually, and look I understand where he’s coming from, his passion and so forth. But this is not helping and it’s not right. I mean, as Albanese has said, and as we all know, as Wes Streeting has said in your country, the vast majority of countries in the world recognize Palestine as a state. The vast majority, vast majority support a two state solution. Indeed, when I was prime minister. Israel notionally supports the state solution, it doesn’t any longer. And the message that I used to make when I was in the Parliament and the message I’ve made since then, is we cannot allow these foreign wars and conflicts to be imported here. We are a very successful multicultural society. We need to ensure that the wars in the Middle East, well wars in any other part of the world, are not fought out here.
