Australian Labor conference rejects Gaza debate push and adopts platform
Australian Labor delegates have adopted the party's Israel and Palestine platform without a floor fight at the end of the party's 50th national conference in Adelaide. The move came after Labor MP Ed Husic failed to secure enough support to debate his proposed amendment on Gaza. The newly adopted platform will guide party policy for the next three years.Mr Husic's push sought to add language acknowledging a United Nations inquiry that found Israeli authorities had deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide and atrocity crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank. According to the conference... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews | 25 Jul 2026 07:33 LONDON
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