Poll on Palestine recognition
, people don't think Australia's actions will make much, if any, difference on the ground in Gaza." says Resolve pollster Jim Reed.
A polling survey conducted by The Sydney Morning Herald has revealed that 44 per cent of voters do not support changing Australia’s current position of not recognising Palestine.
Thirty-two per cent of respondents said they believed Australia should wait until Hamas was removed from power and/or when Palestine recognises Israel’s right to exist before recognising a Palestinian state, while 24 per cent said they supported the proposition that “Australia should recognise Palestine in September’s UN meeting regardless of who is in power”.
The poll was conducted between August 11 and 16 after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong announced that Australia will recognise a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
During his announcement, Albanese said he had received assurances from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that he would hold elections soon and exclude Hamas from Palestinian governance structures. Abbas is in the 20th year of his four-year term.
Hamas – a designated terrorist organisation in Australia – has praised Australia’s “political courage”, which Albanese dismissed as “propaganda”.
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