Letter

In response to Palestinians out by 7 October?

Some Australians are more equal than others

Today (7th October 2025), our prime minister stood in parliament and lamented the death of one dual Australian/Israeli citizen who died two years ago at an Israeli music festival.

He did not mention, nor it was ever mentioned in the last two years, a genocide that the state of Israel has been committing on the Palestinian people. Nor has the government or our prime minister mentioned the more than 67000 predominantly women and children who were killed in the Israeli-committed genocide (possibly some of them also Australian dual citizens).

Finally, Australia is complicit in this genocide, directly and indirectly any way you put it, but our establishment (government, media et al) still do not acknowledge it and try to suppress any opposing voice.

Further, Australia, and its successive governments, have abandoned its own citizens (women and children) who still rot in the refugee camps in Syria without any attempt to repatriate them or provide them consular assistance.

So the question needs to be asked, what is Australian citizenship worth? And who is more worthy of it? It seems that Australia has become an Orwellian Animal Farm, where “all animals are equal, but some are more equal then others”.

Okrad Marconi from Sydney