this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
58 points (98.3% liked)

Australia

3605 readers
54 users here now

A place to discuss Australia and important Australian issues.

Before you post:

If you're posting anything related to:

If you're posting Australian News (not opinion or discussion pieces) post it to Australian News

Rules

This community is run under the rules of aussie.zone. In addition to those rules:

Banner Photo

Congratulations to @Tau@aussie.zone who had the most upvoted submission to our banner photo competition

Recommended and Related Communities

Be sure to check out and subscribe to our related communities on aussie.zone:

Plus other communities for sport and major cities.

https://aussie.zone/communities

Moderation

Since Kbin doesn't show Lemmy Moderators, I'll list them here. Also note that Kbin does not distinguish moderator comments.

Additionally, we have our instance admins: @lodion@aussie.zone and @Nath@aussie.zone

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

The federal government will harden its language on the Palestinian territories, with Labor to begin officially referring to Israel’s settlements in the West Bank as “illegal” and the territories as “occupied”.

top 5 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Nath@aussie.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Hardening" is a euphemism for 'acknowledging International law'.

[–] Neon@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

idk if i would call it a euphemism
more like the opposite i guess. i think that "hardening" sounds worse than "acknowledging international law"
also: can i just say that i love the unfiltered suggestions of kbin and lemmy?
have no connection to Australia or New Zealand (besides wanting to visit once), but still found this on the HomePage

[–] LineNoise@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While not yet in line with the party's national platform or its recent conferences in so far as the demand for recognition of Palestine, this is at least a step in the correct direction from a federal parliamentary party still well to the right of its own rank and file membership

[–] dwan@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good. Israeli West Bank Settlers are the worst kind of human. They are very loud in bad ways and extreme violent. And now they got support from current Israel government.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

And now they got support from current Israel government.

Hasn't that always been the case to some degree?