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Prime minister wraps up overseas visit with meetings in United Arab Emirates. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe shadow treasurer, Ted O’Brien, has defended his rumoured leadership-hungry colleague Andrew Hastie, saying the latter’s spate of comments on everything from immigration to net zero shows the “strength” of the Liberal party.Citing Hastie’s social media posts and “strategic interviews”, ABC 7.30’s host Sarah Ferguson asked O’Brien if he found it “acceptable for a member of the shadow cabinet to promote his leadership ambitions so publicly”.Under the Labor party’s rules, you shut up, you do as you’re told. You never see Labor MPs doing what Liberal MPs do, speaking their mind – robust debate.Remember what Sussan said upfront when she took the leadership, that’s the need for us to listen, the need for us to debate, we take our time to get policy right.I’m in no way defensive of that. In fact, I think it’s a strength of the Liberal party.”Just as I had discussions with the king of Jordan, when I was there, the head of state in New York, certainly the Arab League and the role that they’re playing in pursuing peace is very important.He’s someone who has been an advocate for peace and we’ll await that. But the world wants to see a ceasefire, wants to see the hostages released, wants to see aid into Gaza, but they also want to talk about the day after and in that that’s why the world also wants to see progress towards a two-state solution. Continue reading...

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