Despite the broad-brush painting of increasing prosperity, the Australian working class has been ripped off, while a greater share of the tremendous wealth generated in the domestic economy has been distributed to those at the top.
Those who support Palestine should reject the Israel-centric view of the world that far-right pundits are pushing. It feeds the antisemitism of the right and blunts criticism of US imperialism.
Imperialist nations have always been divided into classes, pitting workers and their capitalist rulers into an antagonistic relationship: one class can gain only at the other’s expense.