11 Oct 2023

Australia: Mideast fallout, referendum nears, the President and the paper baron

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 11 October 2023

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about how events in the Middle East are spilling onto the streets in Australia, with pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli supporters clashing at the Sydney Opera House.

It's just three days until the country's referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, what are the polls suggesting will happen? Australian paper and packaging mogul Anthony Pratt has been drawn into the latest travails of former US president Donald Trump with revelations that Trump revealed nuclear submarine secrets to the Australian businessman shortly after his defeat in 2020. And there's much soul-searching after the Wallabies' disaster at the World Cup.

Protesters show their support for Palestinians during a rally in front of the Opera House in Sydney on October 9, 2023. Israel relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into October 9 as fighting with Hamas continued around the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from the war against the Palestinian militants surged above 1,100. (Photo by Izhar KHAN / AFP)

Protesters show their support for Palestinians during a rally in front of the Opera House in Sydney, which was lit up in the colours of the Israeli flag. Photo: IZHAR KHAN