A motion that unconditionally recognized Palestine and condemned Israel and the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, was defeated at the Western Australian Labor Party Conference and instead a more balanced motion, similar to the one passed at the NSW Labor Party Conference, was adopted. Swastikas painted in a park next to the Jewish Chabad Centre in Canberra were left for 3 months, due to an administrative miscommunication, despite their being reported to the Australian Federal Police by the Centre and even though such offensive graffiti is normally removed within 24 hours. David Eldar, a 27 year old Jewish Australian from Melbourne, has won the world Scrabble championship in London, where he is living and working as a real estate agent, on his 7th attempt, by beating opponents from 26 countries and a Sri Lankan rival in the final, which he won 3 games to 0. (A motion that unconditionally recognized Palestine and condemned Israel and the Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, was defeated at the Western Australian Labor Party Conference and instead a more balanced motion, similar to the one passed at the NSW Labor Party Conference, was adopted. Swastikas painted in a park next to the Jewish Chabad Centre in Canberra were left for 3 months, due to an administrative miscommunication, despite their being reported to the Australian Federal Police by the Centre and even though such offensive graffiti is normally removed within 24 hours. David Eldar, a 27 year old Jewish Australian from Melbourne, has won the world Scrabble championship in London, where he is living and working as a real estate agent, on his 7th attempt, by beating opponents from 26 countries and a Sri Lankan rival in the final, which he won 3 games to 0. )