Questioned Australian aid to the Palestinian authority and the definition of Palestinian refugees. The aid inflow to the Palestinian Authority was in total estimated to be $661 million, of which Australia provided about $10 million. Is that correct? Whole interaction...
Questioned whether the Australian government had raised concerns about Palestinian children in Israeli military detention, including Ahed Tamimi, and if Australia had concerns about the decision by the USA to move their Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Has...
Questioned the rationale for ABC broadcast of interviews with Dr Stephen Sizer and Dr Scott Burchill. Did Mr Rutledge, for example, challenge Dr Sizer when he said that Israel is not a democracy for Palestinians living in Israel? I note that, as a result of this, an...
I rise today to express my deep concern about the ongoing occupation of Palestine and the current global discourse which risks permanently ending any chance for peace. I visited Israel and the West Bank of Palestine late last year with the Australia Palestine Advocacy...
I believe Ahed Tamimi’s real crime in the eyes of Israel has been to shame that country’s illegal occupation of Palestine and her point-blank refusal to accept or bow down to that 50-year-old occupation and the guns that come with it. Full speech Senator SINGH...
