Press Council slaps Daily Telegraph for misleading Hamas headline

A headline published by The Daily Telegraph in early December that claimed the Australian Labor party “backs Hamas” has breached the Press Council’s standards of practice.

On December 4, the paper printed an article under the headline: “To keep peace at home, Labor backs Hamas”.

The article reported that foreign affairs minister Penny Wong “is set to strengthen Australia’s support for a two-state-solution in the Middle East by backing a United Nations vote calling for an ‘irreversible pathway’ to the measure after abstaining in recent years, in a move the Coalition claims will further open a rift with Israel”.