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Can’t read a contract, and elected as a token representative of diversity, a female Muslim, she wants the gubment to end trade with Israel, implement sanctions and immediately recognise a Palestinian state.
They don’t want to do any of these things because:
1. They won’t have any effect in the Levant
2. They will hurt Australia directly and indirectly
3. The opposition will have a hypocritical field day with it, and
4. The electorate on the whole doesn’t give a stuff. Don’t get fooled by the noisy minorities on either side of this debate, the silent majority is just sitting there getting more and more annoyed by all this noise that has nothing to do with us, in their minds.
All up, the take home message for the silent majority will be “don’t pander to minorities”, aka no good deed goes unpunished. So the whole thing is counter productive in the long run.
Note well, by resigning all she has achieved is to prove that she is a juvenile by Roman definition*, under 40 and not fit for the senate. No other practical benefit is noted, other than a good bump in her insta.
* variably 27, 25, 30 and 40 at various times of the great republic/dictatorship, as I recall
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