To the Honourable President and members of the Senate in Parliament assembled. The petition of the undersigned shows:

The Australian Government has often referred to their friendship with Israel, forged 77 years ago during its admission to the United Nation (UN). However, that friendship cost the Palestinian people their land and discredited the UN.
Doc Evatt, Australia’s Foreign Minister to the UN in 1947, played a pivotal role in the racist decision to partition Palestine (Resolution 181) without genuinely consulting the Palestinians or seeking advice from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on whether the partition plan aligned with the UN Charter.
Then in 1948-49, when Evatt was President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Committee on Palestine, he deliberately deviated from Article 4 of the UN Charter requiring states to be ‘peace loving’, to prioritise Israel’s statehood over Israel’s unresolved terrorist violations which included the assassination of British citizens and a UN rapporteur, rapes, murders and torture during the massacres of Palestinian villages resulting in the displacement of over 750,000 Palestinians, known as the Nakba.
Evatt also ignored the starvation, disease and dispossession of Palestinians caused by the Nakba and Israel’s refusal to abide by Resolution 181 and Resolution 194 calling for Palestinian refugees' right of return and reparations.
Almost every Australian Government has mirrored Evatt's racist foreign policy legacy by not recognising the Nakba and mouthing hollow criticism of Israel’s brutal, racist, illegal, military occupation spanning 58 years designed to ease the theft of Palestinian lands and obstruct Palestinian statehood.
In 2024, following the ICJ advice (19 July 2024), the UNGA overwhelmingly agreed as per resolution ES-10-24 that Israel's illegal occupation must end and Israel withdraw from mandated Palestinian territories by 18 September 2025, ensuring all impediments to Palestinians’ inalienable right to self-determination were removed. The Australian Government abstained from voting. The Australian Government’s sudden change to recognise Palestinian statehood appears as political theatre to appease the Australian community's outrage at Palestinian suffering. In reality, the Australian Government continues its racist, foreign policy legacy by placing impediments on the path to Palestinian statehood, never required of Israel. At UN meetings in September 2025, Penny Wong must do what is not only just, but what is right to atone for the terrible wrong started in 1947.  While statehood for Palestine is the end game, Penny Wong must not only call for Palestinian statehood without any impedents but implement trade and diplomatic sanctions on Israel as a priority to end the the illegal occupation, recognise the Nakba and utilise UN resolution 377(V) to call for a ceasefire. 

We petitioners ask that the Senate require Senator Wong in her capacity as Foreign Minister to: 

1.       Unreservedly remove any impediments to the admission of the state of Palestine into the UN, along pre-1967 borders 

2.       Publicly acknowledge the Nakba in the Federal Parliament and the UNGA.

3.       Amend the UNGA Resolution ES-10-24 to apply trade and diplomatic sanctions on Israel until the illegal occupation ends and Israel pays reparations and allows right of return for Palestinians.

4.       Call on the UNGA to use Uniting for Peace Resolution 377(V).