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Australian PM Albanese says Israel’s blockade of aid into Gaza is ‘an outrage’

c/world · u/pete_link@lemmy.ml · 194 points

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30678096

Josh Butler

Sun 25 May 2025 21.56 EDT

"In a press conference on Monday morning, Albanese said: “#Israel’s actions are completely unacceptable.”

“It is outrageous that there be a blockade of food and supplies to people who are in need in #Gaza … People are starving. The idea that a democratic state withholds supply is an outrage.”"

Comments

u/Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 points

That's interesting, didn't know that. I don't think it's part of the standart markdown format, so a lot of clients will probably not render it.

u/eureka@aussie.zone · 1 points

Lemmy's web UI formats it as a footnote[^[1]^](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html), I didn't realise other apps might not read that formatting:

![](https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/048d2eba-1c41-43df-8c1d-9c4e7c9a307b.png)

u/eureka@aussie.zone · 1 points

Though to be fair, Dutton was never going to be a better option.

Luckily we're not trapped in a two-party dichotomy, Liberal's opinions are slowly mattering less and less and minor candidates are getting more of the pie.

u/Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 points

Just fyi, you didn't format the link correctly. You have to do [text].(link) without the dot.

u/Gronk@aussie.zone · 1 points

Polls must have shown it's popular to stand with Palestine.

I like the Albanese government but it is *very* quiet when there is an issue that conflicts with the parties values or donors.

u/FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com · 8 points

Us in Australia are almost universally disgusted by what Israel is doing, and we hold 'Murica in pretty damned low esteem too

u/pete_link@lemmy.ml · 2 points

The hashtags were added in Mastodon and I forgot to remove them in Lemmy, sorry.

u/madjo@feddit.nl · 29 points

Or more accurately, mister Albanese, it's a war crime.

u/Mrkawfee@lemmy.world · 14 points

No shit sherlock. I do feel that this empty rhetoric is psychological comfort to convince Western elites who are complicit in the genocide, as well as their voters, that they are civilized and moral.

u/eureka@aussie.zone · 12 points

For those unfamiliar with Prime Minister Albanese:

  • Founding member and secretary of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine around 2000^[https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/29/protester-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-israel-palestine/]
  • Complicit in the zionist regime's recent invasions and ongoing genocide in Gaza
  • Australia trades with the regime, and arrested port protesters and members of the Maritime Union of Australia, including the leader of the Sydney branch
  • Australia is the sole exporter of the F-35 bomber fuselage
  • Australia repeatedly supported the invasion through UN voting

u/catloaf@lemm.ee · 2 points

He did not say it with hashtags, why has that been added?