Ten steps Labor could take to address the war on Iran, Lebanon and Palestine |
How many people watching Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s rare address to the nation on April 1 were hoping for big petrol tax cuts or cost-of-living adjustments? Some criticism of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu’s illegal attacks on Iran and Lebanon would not have gone astray.
Instead the one solid promise from a simpering PM was to halve fuel excise by 26 cents a litre. At that point, working people were trying to make ends meet while petrol and diesel prices rose by 10 cents per litre a day.
The US bombed a girl’s school in Iran, killing 168, and these are just a fraction of the nearly 2000 innocent Iranian civilians it has massacred. More than 1 million people have been told to evacuate south Lebanon by Israel, which has bombed it killing hundreds and injuring thousands.
The PM has still said nothing about these war crimes, while the Foreign Minister Penny Wong is blaming Iran — even after Trump’s iniquitous blast on April 7 saying that “a whole civilisation will die tonight” terrifying many into believing we were on the brink of world war three, or perhaps a nuclear attack.
Legal experts say this threat could constitute a war crime.
The Labor Party leadership has said nothing about Trump’s threats, while new National Party leader Matt Canavan, a........