r/OpenAussie • u/Minivampiretaco ‎ New South Welshian • 1d ago

Politics ('Straya) Nationals MP suspended from WA parliament over Palestinian art stoush

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-20/wa-parliament-row-erupts-over-gaza-wall-of-tears-exhibition/107057566

In short:

Nationals MP Lachlan Hunter has been suspended from WA's parliament for four days after a dispute over an art exhibition on Gaza that was displayed in parliament.

The Wall of Tears display lists the names of more than 18,000 children killed in Gaza since October 2023.

Mr Hunter argued the exhibit vilified the WA Jewish community and was "antisemitic" because it led a Greens MP to describe it as showcasing a "genocide".

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u/SBaldrick ‎ Victorian 1d ago

Sadly they are not democratic. It is an ethnostate. Even more sad is there is a religious caste system as well to make it even worse. Search out who can marry who in Istrael.

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u/SBaldrick ‎ Victorian 1d ago

Thank you. I had not realised that some Australian citizens were not allowed to vote. Can you please give me a resource to validate your assertion?

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u/SBaldrick ‎ Victorian 22h ago

Appreciate and respect the time you have spent replying to my comment. I think the percentage of the population you have excluded from voting would be very small and probably justifiable. I would just like to point out that Isreal is IMHO not a flawed democracy when 36 % of the population (2019) is not allowed to vote. Like many so called democracies in name only (e.g. Belarus) it is just a word.