Australia news live: Albanese walks with Jewish community in Melbourne as Dutton arrives to cheers at Sydney clifftop vigil
by Cait Kelly (now) and Emily Wind (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#6R905)
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904 Australians and their immediate family members have now left Lebanon on assisted-departure flights - in addition to those who left on partner and commercial flights.
407 Australians left on 5 October, and 448 on 6 October.
Why so silent, Mark? This, I have been asked a lot. I have thought about it a lot too. I have said little in public about the Hamas-Israel war because I am not the foreign affairs minister. I am Australia's first law officer. A minister, not a commentator. Just because I'm not talking doesn't mean I don't understand.
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