More than 300 employees of federal, state and local governments sign letter warning against Australia’s ‘complicity’ in war crimes
More than 300 public servants have signed an open letter addressed to Anthony Albanese and members of the government calling for an end to arms exports to Israel amid fresh global condemnation over airstrikes in Rafah.More than 300 public servants have signed an open letter addressed to Anthony Albanese and members of the government calling for an end to arms exports to Israel amid fresh global condemnation over airstrikes in Rafah.
“As public servants whose work is to serve our communities, it is our obligation to voice our deep concern that you are leading Australia to be complicit in an additional genocide, an additional colonial project, staining this nation with more war crimes – even more than it lays claim to already – and, in negligence of the public we serve, these war crimes are again in the service of foreign powers,” the letter states.
At the time, the defence industry minister, Pat Conroy, told the ABC that Australia was “not exporting military weapons, things like bombs, to Israel”. Israel stirred fresh global condemnation this week after it launched airstrikes in Rafah that hit tents housing displaced people, killing at least 45 people. Its war in the enclave has resulted in more that 36,000 Palestinian deaths since the Hamas attack on October 7, including an estimated 15,000 children.
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