History often happens without warning and, even more often, against all our wishes and best efforts. Sunday, 3 August, was different. Hundreds of thousands woke up ready and determined to make history themselves on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
More countries recognising a hypothetical entity called “State of Palestine” is positive in terms of its symbolic impact. However, the meanings and implications of this recognition greatly vary with time.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the world's most iconic landmarks. Tomorrow, on Sunday 3 August, Palestine Action Group will shut it down so tens of thousands can march to oppose the genocide in Gaza.
Anthony Albanese has made his strongest declarations to date on the genocide in Gaza. But as long as his government continues to support Israel and vilify Palestine solidarity protesters, his words are worse than useless.
As Australian politicians took their seats in Canberra, thousands of mothers in Palestine searched desperately for sustenance for babies they had spent months carrying and nurturing. The politicians united to denounce a Greens senator for objecting to the genocide.
In the upside-down world of 2025, the daily mass murder and starvation of children is fine and normal, but speaking against it is extremism, violence and hate speech.
