Please Note Change of Venue:

Outside West Entrance, Adelaide Convention Centre

Entry via Morphett St Bridge entrance

JOIN OUR PROTEST ON THE EVE OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY!
5-6pm Monday 9 December

Finally! Australia has done the right thing at the UN and voted YES, along with 156 other countries to demand the end of Israel’s “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible”.

AFOPA welcomes this shift in Australia's stance on Palestine. It is clear that the Palestine solidarity movement's campaigning and pressure on the government is beginning to work. This decision puts us in line with almost the entire world, with of course the exceptions of Israel and the US, and acknowledges the finding of the International Court of Justice that Israel's occupation of Palestine is illegal and must end.

We now need REAL action, not words! We want our country to sanction apartheid Israel. We want trade embargoes. We want Australian institutions and companies to suspend their business with Israel. We want the federal government and Australia's state governments to suspend defense contracts with Israel. We want our universities to divest from agreements and contracts they have with Israel.

It has taken 14 months for the Australian Government to do anything other than to express concern in relation to the horrific genocide being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza. And, don't forget, it was Penny Wong who withheld Australia's funding to UNRWA earlier this year without evidence and by Israel's say so.

The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library notes that "Bob Hawke was deeply committed to the anti-apartheid cause. At the 1987 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) meeting in Canada, he began garnering support from fellow Commonwealth leaders for financial sanctions against South Africa, contributing to the eventual unravelling of the apartheid system". Bob Hawke is honoured today through the Hawke Centre at the University of South Australia, and through the annual Bob Hawke Lecture.

This year, that lecture will be delivered by Senator for South Australia, Foreign Minister, Hon Penny Wong. The Foreign Minister has a long way to go to approximate Bob Hawke's commitment to ending apartheid.
 

TELL PENNY THAT WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH!
Join us outside West Entrance, Adelaide Convention Centre

Entry via Morphett St Bridge entrance to the Convention Centre