{"id":739225,"date":"2026-06-16T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739225\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:24:12","slug":"breaking-australia-will-now-investigate-israel-over-assault-claims-west-report-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/739225\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING! Australia will now investigate Israel over Assault Claims | West Report Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael West<\/p>\n<p>This is the biggest story most Australians have not yet grasped.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in Canberra, Australian survivors of physical, psychological and sexual abuse by Israeli authorities met with Foreign Minister Penny Wong, the Hon Dr Anne Aly MP, a Deputy Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, and a senior DFAT official.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the Australian Government has committed to an independent investigation into the assaults, sexual assaults and torture of the Gaza Flotilla humanitarians.<\/p>\n<p>Read that again. Not an internal Israeli review. Not a department preparing a briefing note. Not a politician expressing concern.<\/p>\n<p>Support us \u2764\ufe0f https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thewestreport<br \/>Our Journalism \ud83d\udcf0 https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au<br \/>Merch \ud83d\udc55 https:\/\/lonelykidsclub.com\/collections\/michael-west<br \/>Linktree \ud83c\udf10 https:\/\/linktr.ee\/michaelwestmedia.com.au<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/michaelwest.com.au\/author\/michael\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Michael-headshot-400x400.png\" class=\"attachment-200x200 size-200x200\" alt=\"Michael West headshot\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael West established Michael West Media in 2016 to focus on journalism of high public interest, particularly the rising power of corporations over democracy. West was formerly a journalist and editor with Fairfax newspapers, a columnist for News Corp and even, once, a stockbroker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael West This is the biggest story most Australians have not yet grasped. Today, in Canberra, Australian survivors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-739225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}