Labor ‘not giving up’ on republic push – as it happened
by Natasha May and Rafqa Touma (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#6HNM6)
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Liberal senate leader and shadow foreign minister Simon Birmingham says a reported bomb threat against a person flying the Palestinian flag in Botany has no place in our nation".
He wrote on X (formerly Twitter):
Australia is a democratic nation of free speech. Whether driven by disagreement, intolerance or Islamophobia this act has no place in our nation.
Whatever anyone's views about flying the Palestinian flag at this time, this is illegal and reprehensible behaviour to be condemned.
ENOUGH! TAKE DOWN FLAG! ONE CHANCE!!!
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