A federal Labor backbencher has broken ranks to accuse Israel of carrying out 'genocide' in Gaza, calling on her party to sanction and cease trade with Israel.
Labor Senator Fatima Payman has broken ranks to accuse Israel of carrying out "genocide" in Gaza , calling on her party to sanction and cease trade with Israel .
"I see our leaders performatively gesture defending the oppressors' right to oppress while gaslighting the global community about rights of self-defence." But it has not supported accusations of genocide, and when challenged on ABC Radio about Senator Payman's comments, Mr Albanese avoided a direct response.
"The lack of clarity, the moral confusion, the indecisiveness is eating at the heart of this nation. It is dividing and confusing the nation."
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