Australian Foreign Minister Announces Change to Recognition of Jerusalem

Australia’s Labor government has announced that they will be walking back the previous government’s policy of recognising West Jerusalem as the capital of the country.
This comes after a spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on Oct. 18, told The Guardian that  “no decision to change” had been made by the government after the Australian media reported that key sentences on its website related to Australia-Israel relations had been altered.
The removed sentences included:
“In December 2018, Australia recognised West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, being the seat of the Knesset and many of the institutions of the Israeli government….