Conflating immigration with terrorism is just a quick way of importing the tensions of the Middle East into Australia.
Many Australians may well remain consumed by their increasing struggles with the cost of living, and apprehensive about the growing prospect of yet another interest rate rise in just over a week’s time.
The horrific Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7 shocked the world and, in the eyes of many, set back the Palestinian cause by years. But the subsequent siege of Gaza by Israel and the mounting death toll among its civilian population has changed the content of reporting about the region.
“There’s a really immature debate that we often fall into where it says if you acknowledge anything in favour of the Palestinian people, or a claim that if in any way you acknowledge that there is a history that began before October 7, that somehow that’s making excuses for Hamas.
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