Former Labor MP Michael Danby, a long-time champion of Israel, was denied a chance to speak against a motion calling on a Labor government to recognise Palestine as a state.
“Associating Labor with a homophobic, undemocratic, divided, kleptocratic, misogynist Palestinian regime is bizarre enough,” Mr Danby said. “But attempting to create the false impression that this is accepted by all delegates is worthy of Stalin.”
Labor’s foreign affairs spokeswoman, Penny Wong, said the platform reflected the same position the national conference reached under Bill Shorten in 2018.
“There’s no lesser or greater weight and the position is replicated. It is a position which recognises the views of the conference in relation to statehood,” Senator Wong said.
Read the article by Rob Harris in The Age.