‘Deeply Troubled’: Pro-Palestine Protest for School Children Planned in Melbourne

Coalition shadow foreign affairs minister Simon Birmingham has raised concerns about the ‘Free Palestine’ strike and protest planned for Australian children. Free Palestine Melbourne has promoted a city-wide school strike for Palestine, including a protest on the Flinders Street station steps in the city next week. Senator Birmingham said he is “deeply troubled” by the idea, highlighting that children should not be drawn into sensitive activities. “Schoolchildren really shouldn’t be dragged into sensitive activities and areas of, I think, great complexity in terms of how this conflict, its history, its origins, and ultimately, of course, the fact that some will seek to use them as voices,” Senator Birmingham told Sky News....