A Response from the People of Australia Prime Minister Albanese, Your statement marking the second anniversary of October 7, 2023, does not speak for the people of Australia. It speaks only for the increasingly narrow interests of a government that has chosen to turn its back on human rights, international law, and the values you claim to represent. While you profess compassion for victims of violence, your government’s actions—and deliberate inactions—have made it abundantly clear that your empathy is selective. At every opportunity, you have issued statements of unwavering support for the Israeli government, even as that same government has carried out a brutal and sustained campaign of collective punishment in Gaza. You call it conflict. The world sees it for what it is: genocide. What began as military retaliation has devolved into the systematic annihilation of an entire population—over 100,000 Palestinians killed, most of them women and children. Entire neighbourhoods flattened. Hospitals bombed. Water, electricity, and food supplies cut off. And yet, you have refused to call it by its name. You have not once condemned these war crimes. You have not demanded accountability. Instead, you have hidden behind diplomatic language while Gaza is reduced to rubble. Even worse, Australia—under your leadership—has played an active role in this destruction. Your government has allowed the export of weapons’ components, including F-35 parts, to Israel. These parts are not sitting idle in storage—they are integrated into warplanes that drop bombs on residential areas, refugee camps, and UN shelters. These planes have killed children in their sleep and mothers clutching their babies. By permitting the export of these components, you have made Australia complicit in war crimes. You have blood on your hands. And for what? For diplomatic favour? For economic interests? Or is it because of unrelenting pressure from a foreign power that now seems to dictate the foreign policy of a sovereign Australia? Your silence on the massacre in Gaza is not neutrality—it’s collaboration. It’s complicity. And in doing so, you have violated not only moral and ethical responsibilities but the very spirit of our Constitution, which was never meant to be shaped by foreign influence. The Australian people did not elect you to be a cheerleader for apartheid, nor did we choose you to facilitate the suffering of an entire race. Your repeated failure to speak out against this genocide is not an oversight—it’s a choice. And it’s a choice that will define your legacy. We remember Prime Minister Gough Whitlam—someone who fiercely protected Australia's independence from foreign manipulation. He stood up for sovereignty, justice, and truth. To imagine how he would react to your government bending to the will of another state, while allowing Australian resources to be used in the slaughter of civilians, is to know that he would be sickened. Your attempt to frame this moment as one of remembrance and grief for Jewish lives lost—while ignoring, erasing, and silencing Palestinian grief—is an insult to every Australian who believes in justice for all people, not just some. You have divided the nation with your moral cowardice. You have chosen to align with power over principle. Let us be clear: this is not about antisemitism. This is about human rights. And the Israeli government is not beyond accountability simply because it claims victimhood. We can mourn the victims of October 7 while also demanding justice for the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered since. Anything less is hypocrisy. You say it’s our duty to pursue peace. Then act like it. End military exports to Israel. Condemn the war crimes. Demand a permanent ceasefire. And restore some shred of integrity to the office you hold. Until then, you do not speak for us. The People of Australia @AlboMP @SenatorWong #auspol