Embassy of the State of Palestine

Ambassador Abdulhadi attended the 2020 National Flag Raising and Citizenship Ceremony in Canberra on Australia Day, in the company of His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Honourable Scott Morrison MP, Prime Minister of Australia.

On Monday, 2 December, the United Nations Information Centre for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, in partnership with the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (GDOP), the Federal Parliamentary Friends of Palestine (PFP) and the Council of Arab Ambassadors in Australia (CAA), hosted.

On Friday, 25 October, the General Delegation of Palestine, in partnership with Cultural Media Australia, organised an evening premiere of the Oscar-nominated, Palestinian film It Must Be Heaven at Capitol Cinemas Manuka, officially opening the Canberra leg of the Palestinian Film Festival.

On Tuesday, 22 October, Ambassador Abdulhadi attended a briefing, which included a Q+A session, by the New Zealand Foreign Ministry’s Deputy Secretary - Australia, Europe, Middle East and Africa Group, Mr Jeff Langley, at the New Zealand High Commission in Canberra.

Ambassador Abdulhadi met with the Minister of Health, HE Dr Mai Kaila, in Ramallah during his August visit to discuss the present needs and priorities of the health sector in Palestine.Also raised during their meeting were some areas for potential, health-focused co-operation between Palestine and Australia.

Ambassador Abdulhadi visited an-Najah National University in Nablus during his August/September visit to Palestine.During his visit, he met with some of the academic staff with whom he discussed the initiative of commencing official co-operation (such as student exchange programs) between an-Najah and a receptive Australian counterpart.