Chapter:
34 - International Affairs
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Branch: Dickson Morning
My Private Notes


Preamble
​Palestinians livestreaming of the genocide has made it impossible for any political or military figure in Australia or any other nation to claim "we didn't know", as many claimed after the holocaust of 6 million Jews in WWII.
Australia is not powerless and must act under international human rights law to stop the genocide against the children and civilians of Gaza and the West Bank.

We must refuse complicity and call on the Australian Federal Government and the ACT government to immediately commence and intensify all available economic and political measures to support the survival and recovery of the Palestinians, half of whom are children with no army to protect them.

General Resolution

UN Protection Force and the Obligation to act to stop genocide under international human rights law

ACT ALP Conference 2025 calls on Foreign Minister Wong and Prime Minister Albanese, and calls on the ACT Government to advocate to the minister and prime minister, that they: 
1. Work to support an international coalition to economically, politically and diplomatically isolate and pressure Israel to: 
-immediately, permanently, and unconditionally cease the genocide and all military assaults; 
- immediately, permanently and unconditional resume unhindered humanitarian aid, and; 
-dramatically increase aid so that it is proportionate to need 
- permanently end the blockade of Gaza. 

2. Use Australia's relationship and leverage with the US to uncompromisingly advocate that the US immediately and completely stop supplying the approximately 70% of the arms by which Israel is committing genocide; and stop supplying intelligence and other means of aiding genocide; 

3. Use Australia's relationship and leverage with the United Kingdom, Germany and other Western states to call on them to accompany Australia in immediately ending all military, economic, diplomatic and rhetorical support for what the ICJ ruled in January 2024 Israel's plausible genocide against Palestinians in Gaza; 

4. Require that the Australian Government, as a member state of the United Nations and an ally of the United States, uses its influence to try to stop the US vetoing ceasefire resolutions when they go to the Security Council, the only UN mechanism that can ensure aid reaches civilians and which has enforcement powers to protect civilians; 

5. Urgently and strongly advocate at the UN for urgent deployment of a well-resourced and mandated UN protection force with an ongoing mandate to protect all civilians from the jordan river to the mediterranean sea; 

6. That Australia, in accordance with their obligations as a member state of the United Nations and under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide 
- honor their "obligation to prevent genocide" (article I), an obligation which is extraterritorial in scope; and ensure respect for human rights by those states over which they have influence including the US and Israel; 
- seek to influence Israel, directly and through the United States, to respect the Genocide Convention;

7. Join the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice which accuses Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention; 

8. Call for Israeli political and military leaders to be held legally accountable under international human rights law for genocidal intentions and actions in: