Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on Israeli PM Netanyahu launching criticism at Albanese

Tensions between Israel and other nations have escalated, with Benjamin Netanyahu accusing Australia's Anthony Albanese of 'betrayal'.

Australia is standing by its decision to recognise a Palestinian state, with a formal declaration to be made at the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Netanyahu also accused Albanese of 'abandoning Australian Jews', prompting further concerns.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murray Old's Australia correspondent Heymus very.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Good afternoons, speaking of weird years. There you go.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Speaking off with Ntinya. Who's had another cracked elbow, has he?
He certainly has doubled down on his criticism of the
Australian Prime minister earlier this week. I mean he's he's
appearing on sky News tonight, but of course sky News
has been teasing some of the audio and basically Netanna
who has backed up his description from earlier in the
week that Alba was weak and you know, had abandoned

(00:29):
Australian Jews by recognizing, you know, a Palestinian state and
by and by basically deny the federal government denying a
visa with this right wing fellow to come and have
a speaking to of Australia. Netna Who's told sky News
Albanesi has shown weakness by pledging Australia will recognize the

(00:50):
state and by banning this member of Cabinet from coming here.
Australian Jewish leaders have written to both Prime ministers and
basically told who a very clumsy and mentioned a woneful
lack of understanding of the social and political conditions here
in Australia. But this afternoon the Israeli Minister for Diaspora
Affairs has weighed in. He says that the Prime Minister

(01:12):
here Albanzi, a political calculation of quoting now here, a
political calculation of appeasing Islamists and radical leftists here in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Because of course, Tony Burke, the.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Home Affairs Minister, said, listen, if this fellow comes and
starts talking, he could really upset Islamic people in Australia.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
So look, it's a mess.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
It's not pleasing to have two very long and strong
allies in Israel and Australia had odds in this way,
but Albanzi won't be swayed. And I mean I think
perhaps it's a badge of honor almost that he's there
with Canada, with France, with the United Kingdom in saying
you know what, along with about one hundred and fifty
other countries that they're going to say, of the United Nations,
we recognize a Palestinian state. What are we expecting out

(01:58):
of this economic roundtable?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Gosh, that's a great question.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
If I knew the answer, I'll be at the share
market this afternoon.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
But look, the big thing to come out of it
so far this week.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
And don't forget a lot of this has been in camera,
right it's business leaders, bankers, unions, all that sort of stuff.
It's in camera, in camera, so a little bit to
dribble out. But the big news this week is a
major reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. It's going
to be tightened to rain in exploding costs. There are
huge numbers of children diagnosed with mild autism or developed

(02:36):
develop mental delays. And these children who you know, I
needy kids, no doubt about it. But what they're doing
is putting extreme financial pressure on a scheme here that
that wasn't intended originally to support people with severe and
lifelong disabilities. Think you know the guys and girls in wheelchairs,
for example, amputees have been injured in the workplace accident,

(03:01):
not children who are having trouble at school. So what
the government's proposing here is a separate scheme to start
from mid twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
It's called Thriving Kids.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's going to be funded jointly by the states and
by the federal government.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I'll just give you a quick couple of stats.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Three quarters of a million people are now getting financial
support from the National Disability Insurance Scheme right. One hundred
thousand joined the scheme last year, seventy percent with children
under fifteen. And I mean those conditions autism, mild autism
and so on were previously diagnosed and treated by general practice.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
The government says, unless.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
They reign and spending and wind back some of the stuff,
the ndis in ten years time is going to cost
more than defense, Aged care and medicare combined over one
hundred and five billion dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Unsustainable. Heah, totally.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
What do you make of Queensland's government selling meetings with
ministers to businesses?

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Cheeky made cheekye.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
They haven't been in power for ten years, right, So,
David Chris Fully, I've got the big you know, the
first the first national state convention in government for a decade.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
So on the eve of this convention they had a
big powerwoll today in Brisbane. And guess what.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
And I'll tell you that this is fifteen minute meetings
for a minister.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
It might be the health minister.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, it's going to cost you ten thousand dollars basically,
and all sorts of people were signing up for this.
Mining companies, business leaders, insurance companies, the Australian newspapers say's
even publicans and botox clinics were spending money. I was
spending ten fifteen minutes to say, buddy, hell, I got
a great botox clinic.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Don't shut me down.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
All lining up to bend the minister really is. The
invitation was leaked, you know, and the ministers were to
be numbered in order of preference. So I mean basically
David Christoph Fooley, he's led the coalition to power last October.
They won fifty two out of ninety three seats, tossing
out labor. As I say, label was on the nose
big time, so they got to make hay with the sunshines.

(05:01):
If you want to see a minister on this one day,
only ten thousand dollars fifteen minutes, So Dodgy, hey, thank
you very much, MAS appreciate it. Murry Old's Australia correspondent.
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