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Husic says politicians ‘underestimated’ how strongly Australians feel about Gaza

MP Ed Husic said more and more Australians had grown concerned about the impact of Israel’s war against Hamas on civilian populations. He told RN Breakfast:

I think people in particular believe it’s just not right … To treat kids in the way that they’ve been treated in Gaza. It offends our values as people, and so people turned up in large numbers. …

I think Australian politics has underestimated how strongly Australians feel about this issue. … I think this is a moment, a sort of wake-up call for Australian politics.

I think when I looked in that crowd, yep, you had the people that you would expect that have been there from the start protesting, but there was a lot of middle Australia there, and I think that’s something that can’t be ignored.

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Author : Nick Visser

Publish date : 2025-08-03 22:01:00

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