The decision to abstain from a UN resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas has fuelled frustrations with Labor in Australia’s Muslim community.
calling for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas has fuelled frustrations with Labor in Australia’s Muslim community, according to Australian Federation of Islamic Councils chief executive Kamalle Dabboussy.
Australia’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations, James Larsen, said Australia abstained because the resolution failed to recogniseDabboussy said the Muslim community had for many years developed a close relationship with Labor but the community felt it had been “dropped like a hot potato” since the outbreak of war.
In an escalation of the domestic political fallout from the war, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should give Burke a “dressing down” after Burke refused to say in an ABC radio interview if he thought Israel was committing genocide.Dutton, who Trade Minister Don Farrell claimed was trying to score political points through a war, said Australia should have stood with “our long-standing allies” on the UN vote.
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