New Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US alliance
www.smh.com.au
David Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis.

curtail the us 100% agree, stop exports to ukraine 100% disagree so they will be last on the list of parties i vote for

insane to think if Australia was invaded i’d want a bunch of other pacifists countries telling me how bad they feel and good luck

  • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.comEnglish
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    22 days ago

    This whole thing seems to be a media distraction from the topic of Australia supporting the Israeli genocide against Palestine.

    Note that the background issue to this is that a number of academics, human rights experts and other parts of Australian civil society (not the Greens explicitly) started the Red Lines Package - https://www.redlinespackage.com.au/ - a campaign from outside of parliamentary politics to “ensure that Australia doesn’t fund, arm, or invest in illegal settlements, war crimes, or genocide — anywhere in the world”.

    The Red Lines Package came up at the select committee for selection of bills. Labor moved (see p39 of https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/chamber/hansards/29243/toc_pdf/Senate_2026_09_17.pdf;fileType=application%2Fpdf going by the actual PDF pages, numbered 25 at the top) that the bill not be referred to the committee (i.e. that it is dismissed without the public even having a chance to discuss it), with no reason provided. The Greens moved (see the Hansard on p39-40) that it should be immediately referred (allowing for public discussion). Independent David Pocock supported the bill as well.

    Then the committee voted, and the Labor and Liberal members of the Committee voted down the amendment that the Red Lines Package Omnibus Bill be referred to the committee, effectively denying the public even of the opportunity to submit on it, and completely shutting down the discussion.

    So the Greens listened to civil society and agreed that this is something that should be put up for open public discussion through the parliamentary process. Labor and the Liberals said no, we shouldn’t even talk about this. And then the SMH published a hit piece about it (even using the words ‘Red Lines’, so this is clearly what it’s about) and made it about Ukraine, and didn’t even mention Israel once in the article.

    so they will be last on the list of parties i vote for

    But note that means you’ll be putting parties that don’t even want to talk about us stopping support for the Israeli genocide ahead of the one party that is advocating for not supporting the genocide.

    I’ll still be putting Greens at #1 in the Victorian election this November - they are far ahead of any other party in terms of human rights. I fully support Ukraine in fighting off the aggressors, and do think that their policy on supporting victims against aggressors could be clarified and improved.