It’s time for Labor to not just allow a conscience vote to its members on issues regarding Gaza but for our society as a whole to acknowledge there is more than one worldview for our collective future.
The question of what kind of society we live in is often posed rhetorically on the assumption that we live in a pluralist democracy where different groups of people with various ideologies come together to govern for all . There are layers to that pluralism, though, and the situation regarding Senator Fatima Payman surely challenges the comfortable notions of how real pluralism is in Australia.
Both the structures and cultures of our political parties are intolerant of dissent, particularly where that dissent relates to issues around international relations, economics and religion, and all three are contained in Payman’s dissent from the orthodoxy of the major parties’ insistence that our military and economic relations with the US cannot be seriously questioned.
For decades now, Labor’s binding caucus vote has been enforced to protect the dominance of the executive level of the party and government, and so Payman’s genuine anguish at the killing of Palestinians has nowhere to go. It’s time for Labor to not just allow a conscience vote to its members on these issues but for our society as a whole to acknowledge there is more than one worldview for our collective future.
I also worry about parents with children riding the ungainly looking passenger bikes, many electric. Most flout rules and conventions as if they’re invincible, darting on and off footpaths, expecting car drivers and pedestrians to actually notice them and avoid them.I feel for Kerri Sackville. It is sometimes very difficult to see bike riders, particularly in the rain and dark. Many wear black and have poor lighting, sometimes none.
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