Australia voting in UN ceasefire motion for Gaza ‘diminishes us’

Shadow Defence Minister Andrew Hastie says Australia voting in the UN ceasefire motion for Gaza “diminishes us”. Mr Hastie sat with Sky News Australia to discuss the government’s decision to support the ceasefire motion despite it not condemning Hamas for its crimes against Israeli people. “The United Kingdom at least had the decency to abstain from the vote, whereas we backed a vote calling for a ceasefire that didn’t even condemn Hamas,” he said. “Papua New Guineans, they voted against it – there are a number of countries that either abstained or voted against it, Australia should have been amongst those countries. “I disagree fundamentally with Richard Marles’ assessment of that, I think it diminishes us and what we really need is moral clarity – when a motion doesn’t have the moral clarity to condemn Hamas, I question why we’d support it.”