There is a disturbing lack of bipartisanship on the question of the Middle East, which has real world consequences and seems to potentially point to an ugly new direction in domestic politics, writes Laura Tingle.
An Emergency Warning has been issued for Tara, Kogan, Halliford, Wieambilla, Moonie, and Durong in QLD. For the latest, search onMany Australians may well remain consumed by their increasing struggles with the cost of living, and apprehensive about the growing prospect of yet another interest rate rise in just over a week's time.But it is international developments that are now dominating our daily domestic politics — from our relationships with the US and China to the Middle East.
But the subsequent siege of Gaza by Israel, and the mounting death toll among its civilian population, has changed the content of the day-to-day reporting of the story of this conflict. But for Australian political leaders, the issues are how to adjust your rhetoric to the realities of this changing focus of the story, and how mindful you are of the way it is playing out in our own communities.
There's a really immature debate that we often fall into where it says if you acknowledge anything in favour of the Palestinian people or a claim that if in any way you acknowledge that there is a history that began before October 7 that somehow that's making excuses for Hamas. She has also criticised Iran — a key backer of Hamas — for its "destabilising role" in the Middle East and told Iran's foreign minister that in a phone call this week.On the other side of politics, the Coalition has continued, and if anything hardened, its rhetoric on this dispute to overwhelmingly side with Israel.
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