Pro-Palestinian activists target the office of federal Labor MP Josh Burns overnight in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. It is the latest in a string of acts of vandalism linked to the Gaza conflict.
The office of federal Labor MP Josh Burns was targeted by activists overnight in what the MP called a "politically motivated attack".Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pleaded with activists to stop targeting the offices of members of parliament, after an overnight attack in Melbourne.
"These kind of attacks on politicians' offices that we're seeing across the country is not the way we do politics in Australia.""Another day, another sickening and evil act of antisemitic vandalism, this time targeting a federal member of Parliament because he is Jewish and a supporter of Israel," he said.
Of the politically motivated incidents, police said 87 were linked to opposition to "Israel's Gaza policy" and six incidents were "against Pro-Palestine views".
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