Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese responding to Hamas welcoming Palestine support

Anthony Albanese has hit back against Hamas propaganda' after the Islamist group put out statements overnight welcoming his pledge to recognise Palestinian statehood.

Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef claimed he welcomed the 'political courage' of the Australian Labor Government in an earlier statement.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says this situation has prompted additional concerns.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Huddle International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace
of Mind for New Zealand Business. Oliver Peterson sixty hour
Perth Life Presenters with us Ale.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hello, Heather, So.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
It looks to me like your friend Elbow is really
uncomfortable about being in the same seat as.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Comas absolutely is. And obviously Hermas is going to leverage
this and it's been politicized over here in Australia. But
he's directly quoted a statements now made by Harmas in
a bid to try and dismiss that media coverage which
described him as propaganda. The Sydney Morning Herald actually carried
this story yesterday that Hermass's co founder had praised Albo's

(00:39):
recognition of Palestine, saying it took political courage. But he
then spucks some backlash from the coalition which said the
PM should hang his head in shame and from all
those senior Israeli ministers. He quoted a statement from her
Mass today suggesting use of had no means of communication,
saying it was impossible for the terrorist leader to give
the quote. Now this isn't great, this isn't good news,
this is a good look. But look Albo's not alone

(01:02):
is he in this header? I think we touched on
this earlier in the week. You've got other countries who
are obviously making this declaration about Palestine. Albou wants to
take this to the UN. Obviously the US is even
now suggesting that they may enter into this. But look,
it's not a great headline is it in Australia when
her mass is linking itself to Anthony Albanezi because it's
nothing that he wants to be associated with, despite the

(01:25):
fact that the Coalition is saying it's a foolish plan,
it's absurd. It's just really really dividing I suppose still
Australians who are just feeling quite uncomfortable about what that
situation is in the Middle East.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Hey, you've been invited to his wedding?

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Who elbows? Yeah, I'm his best man.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Why did I ask you that question and expect a
serious answer from ugsure a pain? Did you see that
no world leaders are going to be invited?

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, well that's right. I mean, look, hey, we had
the Kyle Sandlin's wedding for example. A minute hour is
just amount of the people header like, he'll are you
he just sitting there doing shoeies, maybe you know, sculling
a few yard glasses, like probably having a barbie to
just you know, say, Jodie, I do that's what you
expect from Owbs's an out of the people. Why would
he want to invite? Although I mean that hug with

(02:13):
your Prime Minister on the weekend and Elbow like they're
pretty close. I didn't tell.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Now, but hang on a tack hanging attack, don't you Reckon?
That was lux And trying for like Elbow wasn't expecting
a full man hug and Luxe and Winton for.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
It Holand but didn't. But didn't Elbow try and go
in and excuse my naivity and I'm probably going to
make myself look like a fool. But you have a
sort of special greeting in New Zealand sometimes unmously assuming
this is sort of a Maori customy can he try and?
Can he try and touch noses with?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Did he with Luck?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Did? Yeah? Corrects? Hello? What he's going to kiss him?
Like a full on bromance. I think Luxon was like, dude,
what are you doing? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Now, this is what happens when you two woke. You
start you start using in the wrong times. Like it's
lux and mate. Now, what do you make of James
O'Connor getting the call up? Does that surprise you?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we're out of options, Like, come on, it's twenty look,
I mean he couldn't even get a gig in an
Australian teams. You had to go and play for one
of your poultry teams.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Come on, man, playing for the Crusaders is better than
playing for any of your crap teams.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, but hold on, you've got a foot in both camps, right,
Like you cheer on South Africa and New Zealand, so
you do anything to try and bury Australia. So I
kind of obviously representing the wall of ues this weekend.
Master stroke. Look, it's not a master stroke. We're just
out with options, Like we're just pulling a lever and
trying to find anyone who's about. Nick White retired last
week and now he's on in South Africa. He's back

(03:39):
from retirement, the shortest live retirement.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh is he the one that looks like a chimney sweep?
He does?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Actually, yeah, cool, got a great mustache.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah that is awesome. He sweeps the chimney with the mustache.
He thank you, Oli as always you're religion Olli Peterson
six pr pers life person. Can I tell you how
good Oli is. I'm going to tell you something don't
like dwarf and show you how the sausage is made.
But Murray was supposed to be talking to us, and
you know he's a boomer, so we couldn't get him
on the phone. And as phones go straight to voicemail. God,

(04:07):
and I hope he's alive. God only knows he could.
He might have just forgotten, might be playing golf, might
have just fallen asleep, you know, like an afternoon see
still or something. So I said to the Germans, said
I can't I can't get can't get Murray. And I said,
I just call Lollie. He'll be fine, give him a
call and we'll tell him what we want to talk
to him about. Tell him now. She did, and he
had about a one minute what I don't even think
he had him. Did he even have a minute's warning?

(04:28):
I think he had like thirty seconds warning. No, not
even that. That's a lie. Yeah, you're right, Ants has
put two hands up in the air ten seconds warning.
I saw him pop up on the phone box with
ten seconds to go. And he was just unflustered. He's
a man who just lives his job. He knew everything.
We were like, we want to talk to you about that.
He's like, yeah, I'm across it. I know all about that.
I'll tell you what happened. That's how good he is.
Awesome man. Anthony Alberinezi, by the way, on his wedding,

(04:50):
So what's happened is he's been asked about it and
he often you'll find this, Anthony Alberinezi often likes to
talk about his wedding when he's got bad news going on,
like it's quite a bad thing for him to be
with Hamas. So he's like, hey, do you want to
talk about my wedding again? And the Australian media like yep,
tell us more mate, and he goes, oh, no world
leaders are coming, and they're like oh okay, so no
world leaders are coming. It's a pretty small ceremony, he said,

(05:12):
mainly family. They're really close to selecting a date for
the ceremony, which will take place this year, and they're
looking over a couple of options before locking in the
final details. So let's just let's just understand what news
there was out of that absolutely nothing, and yet they
reported it anyway. I don't blame him for having no
world leaders, because if you start having world leaders, then
you're going to have to invite Trump, aren't you, because

(05:34):
you can't have the other world leaders there. And Trump's
not there. And now the position he finds himself in
Hamas is going to expect to be there too, So
this is going to get really awkward for him, isn't it.
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