Labor’s WA senator Fatima Payman has demanded the Albanese government recognise Palestine.
Labor senator Fatima Payman has called on the Albanese government to recognise a Palestinian state, arguing the move would help bring to an end the bloody, months-long conflict on the Gaza strip., Payman said the world had “witnessed the mass killing and displacement of Palestinians and the devastation and destruction of Gaza”.
In the opinion piece, Payman highlighted the fact that a Greens lower house motion to recognise Palestine had failed on May 29 because 80 MPs, including the Labor Party, had voted against it and said that the ALP had argued publicly the vote was designed to score “cheap points” with the public. That vote at the UN stopped short of Australia officially recognising a Palestinian state but showed support for it.
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