If Scott Morrison set the standard for political mendacity, his successor Anthony Albanese and his ministers are going to give it a red hot go.
The Albanese government is handing more than $900 million to Israeli arms company Elbit Systems, which, among other products used in the mass slaughter of Palestinians by the Israeli Defence Forces, manufactured the drone the IDF used to murder Australian Zomi Frankcom.
Remember Frankcom? Labor hasn’t said a word about her since it promised back in April that there’d be a “review” of the IDF’s murder of her along with her World Central Kitchen colleagues as they delivered aid in Gaza.
The prime minister was asked by the Greens in Parliament yesterday about why Labor wouldn’t cancel the Elbit contract.
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