Australian Foreign Minister and Labor Senator Penny Wong has circulated an amendment to a Greens motion to recognise the State of Palestine in the Australian senate, Guardian Australia reports.
- Wong’s amendment would add the words “as part of a peace process in support of a two-state solution and a just and enduring peace” to the Greens motion which simply states “the need for the Senate to recognise the State of Palestine.”
Source: Al Jazeera
Australian Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi says she will call a vote on recognising the state of Palestine in the Australian Senate today.
“All Labor has to do is have the conviction to stick to their policy and take the most basic act of historical justice,” Faruqi said in a post on X, calling on members of the centre-left Labor government to support the motion.
Labor representatives joined with the conservative Liberal and National parties to resoundingly defeat a similar motion in the lower house of Australia’s Parliament last month.
Labor Senator Fatima Payman has since questioned her party’s position, including in an opinion article for Al Jazeera.
I’ll be moving a motion in the Senate today to recognise the state of Palestine.
All Labor has to do is have the conviction to stick to their policy and take the most basic act of historical justice.
I call on every member of the Labor party to support this motion.
— Mehreen Faruqi (@MehreenFaruqi) June 24, 2024
Source: Al Jazeera