Melissa Parke MP – tabled a public petition (signed by 701 citizens) calling on the Government to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) of Israel. Newcastle University academic, Marcelo Svirsky, walked 300km from Sydney to Canberra to deliver the petition.

If we are genuinely concerned about national and global security as well as international justice, we, along with other nations, including the US, should be insisting that Israel do its part to lay the groundwork for peace by, among other things, ending its illegal...