Australia’s move to recognise a Palestinian state

The process to recognize statehood is a long and drawn out affair that doesn’t appear to final for Australia. The wiki page on statehood lists them as planning to recognize this month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_Palestine#Future_diplomatic_recognition

I assume you’re asking as someone from outside of Australia?

Anyway, answering only from personal / anecdotal experience:

Are people openly talking about the genocide in Gaza or is it considered some taboo topic?

Seems fine among the politics-is-okay crowd. Not sure about the don’t-care-about-politics crowd, but it makes national news often enough that I doubt it’s unusually “taboo” compared to other subjects that tend to be politically or emotionally charged.

Do people get fired for saying genocide is wrong or the the people in Gaza have a right to live?

Are people getting dissapeared for expressing solidarity with Palestinians like they are in the USA?

Not that I’m aware of, in general. I know some student protests were cracked down on earlier this year but we weren’t deploying snipers on campuses at least.

Australia has always been at war with Eurasia

I have been accosted on the street twice in a month for wearing a keffiyeh, but there are regularly some of the largest protests in my lifetime, in support of Palestine

the recent steps to recognise Palestine have come with conditions, such as the complete disbandment of Hamas, so I imagine it’s mostly posturing from our opportunist government to settle the people who have been organising around this, especially after 2023

before this Nakba day rallies had fewer than 1000 people turn out, but recently they have been HUGE