The government and the opposition have jointly accused the Greens of using the Israel invasion of Gaza to harvest votes and fan violence, at the expense of social cohesion.
Already a subscriber?The government and the opposition have jointly accused the Greens of using Israel’s invasion of Gaza to harvest votes, lying about Australia’s complicity in the conflict and tacitly legitimising antisemitism and violence.
“It is unacceptable that misinformation has been consciously and deliberately spread by some Greens senators and MPs who have engaged in this demonstration outside offices and online.“That includes knowingly misrepresenting motions they move in this parliament,” said Mr Albanese, whose own electorate office has been shut for six months due to activists.
Putting aside his own differences with Labor over the war, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton backed the prime minister.“Those who seek for their own political purposes and their own political advancement to pour fuel on this fire deserve the condemnation of this chamber,” he said. “The Greens political party and particularly the Leader of the Greens political party have got something to answer for here in the way that they have been encouraging criminal damage to MPs electorate offices, encouraging really riotous behaviour, sometimes violent behaviour, that has been occurring outside electorate officers,” he said.On Tuesday this week, Victorian Labor MP Michelle Ananda-Raja accused the Greens of fanning the violence.
“We have been crystal clear that the Greens are a party of peace and non-violence, support protest that is peaceful,” he said.“I will not be lectured to about peace and non-violence by people who back the invasion of Gaza,” he said.“Children are dying because the Israeli army has engineered a famine, and instead of talking about the victims, the prime minister wants to make it about himself.
Given the government’s frequent and deliberate public calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, Mr Bandt was knowingly peddling “deliberate misinformation”, Mr Burke said.“People in our electorates have real fear for what is happening,” he said. “For them, it’s not a political game.Mr Albanese said the Greens were also denying voters their legitimate right to political representation because many of the MPs’ offices were either under siege or shut for repairs.
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