Australia will resume funding to the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has announced.
  • In short: Australia will resume its funding to the primary aid agency operating inside Gaza, UNRWA.
  • Funding was paused by several nations after Israel claimed several workers had links to the October 7 terror attack by Hamas.
  • What’s next? The government has committed additional support to Gaza, including assistance in delivering aid drops.
  • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    The most effective thing Australia could do about war crimes is force Pine Gap to close and remove all US based here. It’s like we’re a US territory but without the paperwork

      • ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻@aussie.zoneEnglish
        42·
        9 months ago

        I wish more people cared about it as well. I absolutely fail to see the difference between the US, China and Russia. The only differences I guess is that one has successfully interfered with our democracy, dragged us into pointless wars committing war crimes and using nukes on a civilian population.

        Edit: I’m not saying I like China and/or Russia, I’m just saying we need to apply the same scrutiny when looking at ourselves and the US.

        • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          3·
          9 months ago

          Yeah for sure. We’re a pathetic protectorate to the shameless inheritors of the British empire.

          I am an anarchist, I think all states are inevitably going to be cruel. However the USA is uniquely horrible, communist china so far is the garden variety of empire. I would love to see us throw off the yolk of the usa and take our place in Asia Pacific diplomacy. We can all mix and learn, and hopefully find a way forward without world policing foreverwar empire.

          It’s fucking embarrassing how Anglo centric we are, how we don’t learn Mandarin like all our neighbours, and how ignorant we are (media to blame here) of events in our local region.

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
          2·
          9 months ago

          Russia, China, and the US are all problems in similar ways, but different scales - in much the same way that the US has a deeply flawed, democracy while China and Russia are plain old autocratic.

          The US would absolutely fuck us over for their own benefit (again), but what’s in their best interests is generally much more in line with our best interests than China or Russia.

          I work in cybersecurity, and we track state sponsored threat actors (mostly, but far from exclusively China and Russia) - people suddenly rush to change the subject when I ask why we don’t track US threat actors.