Letter
Thank you for your voices
To all signatories to the open letter to Mr Albanese, thank you. Perhaps the combined weight of your importance and words will put an end to this country’s unforgivable reluctance to do the right and just thing. As an average Australian citizen I have also written to our prime minister and foreign minister advocating the return of the hostages, the recognition of Palestine, the cessation of all war/weapons-related trade with Israel to no avail.
To see Australia’s politicians hand wringing, waiting for when the moment is right is not only disgusting, it is ethically and morally wrong.
Palestinians do not have the luxury of a “right moment”, truly a first world concept. Unless all Australian politicians grow a backbone and speak out against the reality that is genocide in Gaza we are perpetuating a crime and not seeking a solution. I, as an Australian mother and grandmother, do not want the blood of babies and families on my hands.
— Lesley Armstrong from Bathurst NSW