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Pandering to vested interests risks undermining society’s cohesion
Readers comment on how governments beholden to vested interests threaten the fabric of society when the budget pie favours the powerful over the needy.
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Melbourne Uni signals intention to evict ‘outside agitators’ in protest occupation
The University of Melbourne says campus protests against the war in Gaza have been infiltrated by outside agitators, but students reject the claim.
- by Chip Le Grand, Tom Cowie and Melissa Cunningham
Minns sacks pro-Palestine MP for labelling Karen Webb a ‘liar’
Upper House MP Anthony D’Adam used a late night speech to accuse the NSW Police of using “fear and intimidation as a means of obtaining compliance” against pro-Palestinian protesters in Sydney.
- by Michael McGowan
Labor senators condemn ‘river to the sea’ chant in Fatima Payman rebuke
Senior Labor figures, including the prime minister, also distanced themselves from Senator Fatima Payman who accused Israel of conducting a genocide in Gaza.
- by Matthew Knott
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Expulsion threats, defiant students and orders to leave as tensions rise on uni campuses
Melbourne, Monash and Deakin universities continue to grapple with defiant students staging protests over the war in Gaza despite requests to leave and dismantle their camps.
- by Tom Cowie, Melissa Cunningham and Alex Crowe
Political football: FIFA to vote on push to expel Israel
A push to expel Israel from international football has opened a new schism in Australia, which plans to abstain from the vote despite the urging of former Socceroo Craig Foster.
- by Chip Le Grand and Paul Sakkal
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These budget crumbs are not enough for daily survival
Readers comment on Jim Chalmers’ balancing act federal budget.
‘This is a genocide’: Labor senator breaks with government over Israel war
Labor senator Fatima Payman also used the slogan “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, which Anthony Albanese has criticised as provocative.
- by Matthew Knott
Keffiyeh scarf effectively banned from floor of Victorian parliament
The development comes a week after a Greens MP was asked to leave the chamber for refusing to take off her keffiyeh scarf, commonly worn to show support for Palestine.
- by Broede Carmody
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Students have a right to protest. Peacefully. On campus. Universities must be defended
Calls for “intifada” are antisemitic, but it is not clear that police should end an entire protest in response to isolated criminal offences.
- by Alan Finkel
Leadership change is the only route to peace in Gaza
One fine day, probably not in my lifetime, both the leaders of Hamas and Israel will die. Perhaps, and only perhaps, when that happens and a new, compassionate and inspired, leadership of both emerges, willing to bury their respective prejudices, pride, and power play, they may have a conversation and a truce will result.