Government will consider pathways for Palestinians fleeing Gaza to stay longer in Australia, Burke says

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Government will consider pathways for Palestinians fleeing Gaza to stay longer in Australia, Burke says
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Calls for humanitarian approach offered to Afghans in 2021 and Ukrainians in 2022 to be extended to Palestinians as visitor visas expire

‘No country in the world would send people back to Gaza at the moment … so we have to work through what happens as the visas that people are currently on expire,’ Tony Burke says.‘No country in the world would send people back to Gaza at the moment … so we have to work through what happens as the visas that people are currently on expire,’ Tony Burke says.

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Hastie said Burke and some of his Labor colleagues in western Sydney were “under immense pressure” over the government’s response to the war in Gaza. Hastie said it was “very important” that the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, had travelled to Israel last week to “affirm our important bilateral relationship”.

In newly published comments, the federal Labor minister Ed Husic said Australia “should be open to” levelling sanctions against the Israeli government, including its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.“The tenor in the campaign is set from above,” the minister for industry and science told the paper in an extended interview.Husic added that he was firm in the need to hold Hamas to account for its actions, including killing and hostage-taking.

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