Letter

In response to Australia still doing little as the Gaza genocide gets worse

Their silence is deafening

The recent federal election presented me with a most unwelcome and unpalatable “less bad” choice. Dutton’s Coalition had little appeal, and Albanese’s Labor not much more. But, being a life-long supporter of the “left”, I held my nose and voted for my local Labor candidate. I wish her, and the government of which she is a part, well.

And then there is Palestine.

By refusing to condemn Israel for the most recent ethnic cleansing in that blood-soaked land, Albanese and and his cabinet have made Australia, and by extension all Australians, complicit in what is happening over there. Their collective silence is deafening. For that I utterly despise them.

Courage? Honour? Backbone? Nowhere that I can see.

— Hal Duell from Alice Springs