‘Sickening and disgraceful': Albanese torched on his ‘cowardly' statement on Gaza
'Various Australian Jewish groups have come out and expressed diplomatically their extreme disappointment with the Albanese government who cannot miss an opportunity to attack Israel or disappoint Israel,' Mr Dean said.
'All we get from Albanese and Wong is this aggressively, undergraduate, Sydney University style, left-wing politics.
'It's just sickening.'
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