Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong says negotiations about a United Nations vote to adopt Palestine as part of its body are still underway and the country's position has not been finalised.
The senator said that timing and the "situation on the ground" were impacting the country's decision on how it would vote. "There is a distinction between this vote in the United Nations and bilateral recognition, that is recognition by Australia, and one does not necessarily lead to the other," she said.in the war last year, would abstain from this UN vote, the senator wouldn't be drawn. However, she did defend the choice of abstaining.
"Universities have to ensure that they are safe spaces for all students, regardless of who they are. Secondly, we do have a right to peaceful protest in this country. And people are entitled to protest in support of their views in a democracy," she said "There is too much of that … not only on campuses, but in our parliament, and amongst our politicians. The diminution of the other, the personal denigration, and the tenor of the language used by some in this debate, I think, is irresponsible.""If the objective is to actually try and generate social cohesion, then I'll be supportive. But if the objective is to create conflict and division, I think that's a problem," she said.
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