Victorian premier accuses pro-Palestine protesters of bringing ‘violence, homophobia and antisemitism’ to Labor conference

Placards are seen as demonstrators gather during a pro-Palestine rally outside the 2024 Victorian Labor state conference in Melbourne on Saturday.Placards are seen as demonstrators gather during a pro-Palestine rally outside the 2024 Victorian Labor state conference in Melbourne on Saturday.

In a post on X after her appearance at the event, Allan said she was “disgusted” by the protesters’ behaviour at Victorian Labor’s state conference. State MP Sonia Kilkenny, whose seat of Carrum partly overlapped with Murphy’s, said her neighbouring MP for Frankston, Paul Edbrooke, was meant to join her on stage but had been locked out of the conference room.

A group called Trade Unionists for Palestine said it had called the rally along with other community groups to protest against state and federal Labor “aiding and abetting the genocide of Palestinian people”. Another urged the Albanese government to introduce visa bans for “violent Israeli settlers” and to make it illegal for Australian citizens, companies and organisations to fund settlement activity.

But Kat Hardy, a supporter of the motions, told the conference floor Paul Hamer, a co-chair of the parliamentary friends of Israel group, “played a constructive role in engaging in the debate”.

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