The Labor government must show some courage and condemn the State of Israel for the ongoing invasion of Gaza and call for an immediate ceasefire. Free Palestine. Senator ALLMAN-PAYNE (Queensland) (16:42): Cutting off medicine, food, water and fuel to the people of...
In the face of a government that is complicit in the violence, Australians are showing up in their thousands and in their millions, calling for peace and seeing a common humanity in the inexcusable tragedy of every Israeli child and every Palestinian child killed in...
Violence against civilians and the collective punishment of a community are war crimes. The children in Gaza need a voice and they need leaders to hear, listen and act. We need a ceasefire now. Senator HANSON-YOUNG (South Australia) (13:34): I stand here today...
Today my colleague Senator Faruqi asked the current highest-ranking member of the government in this place whether they would finally join the community in calling for a ceasefire of all of the parties currently engaged in the gristmill of violence which is Gaza. And...
Of course we have all witnessed the devastating loss of innocent life in the Middle East. That of course started with the attack by Hamas on innocent civilians in Israel. As a government, we have affirmed Israel’s right to defend itself after that horrific...
