Australian senators clash over aid funding for Palestine

The Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi begins her questioning of Wong in the Senate by saying the pause of funding to UNRWA came at a time when it might have been thought that Labor 'couldn’t sink any lower'.

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Faruqi refers to 'four months of Israel’s genocide' in Gaza and warns against 'further enabling collective punishment of Palestinians'.

Penny Wong accuses both the Greens and the Coalition of 'dividing the Australian community and weaponising this horrific conflict'. 'The opposition leader, Mr Dutton, and the Greens are on a unity ticket,' Wong says, 'which is all about dividing the Australian community and weaponising this horrific conflict. You’re the same – you are'

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