CANBERRA, ACT, July 31 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release:
SARAH FERGUSON, HOST:Prime Minister, welcome to 7.30.
ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Good evening, Sarah.
FERGUSON:Will Australia recognise a Palestinian state at the time of the UN General Assembly in September?
PRIME MINISTER:Wewon't be driven by a time frame. What we'll be driven by is when the recognition of Palestine can make a contribution to the creation of two states that is very much our focus. We have supported, indeed, there's been a bipartisan support for two states for a long period of time, and we think that arising out of what is a crisis, the world needs to look at the opportunity that there is not just to solve the current cr...