As he delivered the at Sydney Town Hall on 19 December, prime minister Anthony Albanese told those before him that Australia is not just an observer “of the interplay of others’ ambitions” and the nation’s “foreign policy is not a catalogue of things that happen to us”.
The Australian leader was speaking at an event staged by The Lowy Institute, and its chairperson Sir Frank Lowy is : an ideology born out of the western colonial project, which is predicated upon the domination and eradication of historic Palestine and its people.
As the PM was being introduced to address the Lowy Institute event, organisers were forced to acknowledge the couple of thousand protesters outside Town Hall – chanting, screaming and drumming – as they were set to successfully hinder Albanese.
Staged by , and , the was a huge success in terms of the overwhelming decibels it served the PM, due to his having sanctioned the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.
And those grassroots civilians by the building were able to sustain two hourlong sessions that saw them creating a formidable racket that reverberated throughout the Town Hall chamber, in an act displaying the disappointment, dishonour and disgust felt in regard to Albanese’s genocidal stance. Unionists for Palestine’s Erima Dall condemns Albanese speech as Orwellian ...