The third federal minister to speak out publicly about Palestinian Australians says ‘we can’t have a situation where we only formally acknowledge particular deaths’.
Senior Labor Minister Tony Burke says he supports his local council’s decision to fly the Palestinian flag – and expects it will happen more broadly – because Palestinian Australians whose family members are dying overseas have not had their grief acknowledged in equal ways as the country responded to the Israel-Hamas war.
Burke is the third Albanese government minister to speak out publicly about the way Palestinian Australians had felt treated since the Israel-Hamas war broke out, following the militant group’s deadly attack on southern border towns on October 7.
“If I go through the suburbs, across from Belmore, Lakemba, where I live in Punchbowl, through to Bankstown — pretty much everybody knows somebody who has lost someone.” “We can’t say we only grieve for certain people who are slaughtered. We can’t have a situation, as a nation, where we only formally acknowledge particular deaths.”As public debate and protests erupted over the lighting of monuments in Israeli colours, Burke said he “absolutely respected” there being places where people could grieve with the Israeli flag and colours. But he saidin particular was an arts and cultural precinct, “and it’s sensible for us to start getting back to that”.
“Who’s going to be more affected by the impossibility of importing medicines, will it be the Hamas fighter, or will it be the people in a hospital? Who’s going to have the back-up : the Hamas fighter, or the people on life support, or a baby in an incubator?
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