Australia politics live: Aly hopes Payman remains a Labor senator; Chalmers wary on inflation
The stage-three tax cuts, reformulated in January, benefit all taxpayers. Follow the day’s news live1 July changes: tax cuts, Centrelink indexation and everything else coming for 2024-25Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAly believes amended motion on recognition of Palestine was stronger than Greens motionThe Greens motion that Fatima Payman voted for, called for recognition of Palestinian statehood. Labor amended the motion to say that recognition of Palestinian statehood was part of a peace process that ended in a two-state solution.I think actually our motion strengthened it because the I think just saying the night to recognise a Palestinian state without any context is in some ways tokenistic. I don’t want this to be tokenistic. I want this to be a very clear message to the Palestinian people that Australia supports their aspirations for statehood.And as I say, I was hoping that that would have a resolution, would have got passed. And unfortunately, it didn’t.There’s never one opinion here and you know, different people in the Muslim communities will have different views.And I’ve been in contact with quite a few who have a very different view, who argue one of those things, or they’re they’re saying that, you know, the way to make change may not necessarily be the way that Fatima has chosen. Continue reading...
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Aly believes amended motion on recognition of Palestine was stronger than Greens motion
The Greens motion that Fatima Payman voted for, called for recognition of Palestinian statehood. Labor amended the motion to say that recognition of Palestinian statehood was part of a peace process that ended in a two-state solution.
I think actually our motion strengthened it because the I think just saying the night to recognise a Palestinian state without any context is in some ways tokenistic. I don’t want this to be tokenistic. I want this to be a very clear message to the Palestinian people that Australia supports their aspirations for statehood.
And as I say, I was hoping that that would have a resolution, would have got passed. And unfortunately, it didn’t.
There’s never one opinion here and you know, different people in the Muslim communities will have different views.
And I’ve been in contact with quite a few who have a very different view, who argue one of those things, or they’re they’re saying that, you know, the way to make change may not necessarily be the way that Fatima has chosen. Continue reading...
