Question Time - UNRWA Funding
Liberal Senator for Tasmania and Shadow Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Claire Chandler asks the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Wong about funding the Australian Government provided to UNRWA - Thursday, 8 February 2024
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Wong should be sacked stop blaming everyone else for your f/up
She should be investigated for not telling Australians why she met with China
When we have Australians living in the streets I can think of better places to spend our money. It doesn’t grow on trees.
@sthnwatch
4 ай бұрын
Exactly! Spot on, mate. With Australian resources, Australians shall be supported, inspired, encouraged, educated, and finally guided to overcome challenges their lives throw at them and throw them at... Know this, however, during one of my general tertiary undergraduate higher-education Sociology units study (BClinSc), and specifically noting part of analysing how homeless Australians counted as "Homeless" during the 2011 census where exactly 50% were actually "diagnosed Paranoid Schizophrenic", these Aussies preferred to remain homeless as they enjoyed their positions, ignoring the fact it was their "constant need to watch their own back" that led directly to their sense of paranoia someone was either going to rob them of their meagre worldly possessions they could pack in one small sack/backpack and march around the city with during daylight hours, and/or the constant need to maintain heightened sense of adrenaline-charged hyper-vigilance in guarding their lives on the streets... Other than that, it happy days they had no responsibilities, got fed/clothed/housed (albeit temporarily) for completely free under charity, and lived free. They loved it. My point is, not all Aussies want our assistance, even though they're happy to take the free charity assistance, and waste our finite national resources, which is why it often seems more rational to assist those souls who appreciate the help, and don't take it for granted, only to piss it up against the wall and expect it with a sense of self-entitled sense of ingratitude. . . Food for thought...
@junmin3089
4 ай бұрын
Tell your Government dont import terrorist in your Country
Wong needs to reimburse or go to jail.
Wong slithers like a snake.
@gerrybreugem2496
4 ай бұрын
More like an Eel.
Only penny wong believes penny wong.
She didn’t answer the question 🙃
Her tactic is to use up the time saying nothing
Well said Senator, thank you for pursuing this 🇦🇺 the Albanese government is just covering up for their own gross incompetence
Here we go, the terrorists are getting my money, our money as well
You should better inform before given money to HAMAS...anything else is HYPOCRITICAL OF YOU .
Why can't she just answer the damn question??
@denisgeorge549
4 ай бұрын
Cause she is a trader to Australia she is doing everything in her powers to make us a third world country if we ain't already
Keep pressure on Wong, there's plenty of questions that need to be answered.
Typically, PWong avoids answering any question directly. She's scared though, because she's not as aggressive or arrogant as usual. UNRWA needs to be defunded and shut down.
@rogerramjet9505
4 ай бұрын
Right on 👍
@StimParavane
4 ай бұрын
True Torah Jews Against Zionism
@kevinmoor6408
4 ай бұрын
Wong knows she has been caught out. Is she going to pull the Sergent Shultz act yet again?
@jf7243
4 ай бұрын
She knew all this beforehand. A breach of duty and an appalling use of our money.
@janoconnor6029
4 ай бұрын
Any aid coming into Gaza gets stolen by Hamas.
That is a huge amounts of monies to a country that seemingly is not benefiting?; so the monies are going elsewhere in plenty where it shouldn't be going? from our australian taxes;? wow "not happy bout that Jan, at all?"; further investigation is required, speedily in a timely manner.
@Gungho1a
4 ай бұрын
Palestine isnt a country. Its a mob under a terror organisation, and a former terror organisation. They hold a made up seat in the UN simply so the UN can leverage western taxpayer funds to feed them.
@gerrybreugem2496
4 ай бұрын
Gaza is a welfare reliant state due to its government ( Hamas0 why work when idiots from over the world give you money to terrorise.
More than questions on the floor needed...we need a royal commission.
@savagegfry
4 ай бұрын
We need the AFP to investigate, Wong's funding of HAMAS, through UNRWA. Its a federal crime.
Was she going to say occupied Gaza?😅
The worst Foreign Minister of all time.
Penny makes lots of points but never answers the questions. The minister of Chinese affairs needs to go.
@gillysmob
4 ай бұрын
But she said "I will say VERY CLEAR FACTS". Lol. = Glossa!!
@libbyrafferty3759
4 ай бұрын
There’s no terrorist group or genocidal dictator that old PWong doesn’t want to support with Australian tax payer money.
Other countries have withheld their funding obviously not so enamoured of them as PWong
@graemekeeley4497
4 ай бұрын
The 15 countries that have withdrawn UNRWA funding France, US, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Netherlands, UK, Italy, AUS Finland, Estonia, Japan, Romania, Austria, EU Why, sources report that nearly 200 UNRWA workers are Hamas or Islamic Jihad operatives, 13 UNRWA workers crossed into Israel on 7 October and actually participated, either directly or indirectly, in the 7 October massacre," UNRWA claims to have sacked nine of those employees About 1,200 of UNRWA's 12,000 employees in Gaza have links to Hamas or Islamic Jihad. UNRWA schools, have been teaching the doctrines of extermination for Israel - the doctrines of terrorism, glorifying terrorism, lauding terrorism." UN has declined to comment, saying an internal investigation into the agency is underwa
Shame wong.
Well said !
Wong has been a supporter of Palestinian freedom fighters for years along with Albo why is this not being brought up ? Admit your guilt Ms Wong
Funded since 51. Why so long? The UN has other bodies to do this, so she is incorrect when she said no other body could do what UNRWA does . Why does UNRWA define a refugee different to the rest of the UN. Surely this is also the problem.
@TheThoughtfulMinority2067
4 ай бұрын
International law defines refugees, not UNRWA nor UNHCR nor any other aid organisation. You lot will probably have forgotten about this by the time the Catherine Colonna report comes out in April!
@robertmoody5139
4 ай бұрын
@@TheThoughtfulMinority2067 I would suggest you do some research on how refugees falling under UNWRA are defined compared to other refugees handled by the UN, not that it will make a bit of difference to Catherine Colonna's assessment when she releases it.
Wong never answers a question
What a absolute joke, this bowl head should be sacked
UNRWA is probably not the only organisation that can provide aid to people in Gaza. It is the only one that has been working with Hamas. UNRWA is a specific organisation set up for Palestinians who are the only people who maintain refugee status for generations. No other people group has this benefit.
Trusting the UN is like trusting a charging Bull .
Wow talk about Wong bloviation
Benny pong should have done more research before giving our money away, money that could have been spent on the hospital system
Defund all un
Woha taking responsibility …
She is so full of lies and deception.
In no way does anything Penny Wong has said make it acceptable for Australian taxpayers money to be donated to fund terrorism. Regardless of the Humanitarian crisis this is not acceptable and UN need to allow other more reputable aid agencies to distribute aid. UNWRA and Hamas links make it unacceptable for Australia to List Hamas as a terrorist group but yet donate funds to UNWRA. So find another way of distributing aid or don't fund it at all as risks is to great of funds been missused.
Listen PWong, we normal Aussies say we’ve given more than enough to UNRWA aka Hamas over the decades. STOP NOW.
@--Nath--
4 ай бұрын
Normal Aussies don't help genocide be carried out. Cutting off aid while a genocide is being committed is a violation of our duties under international law.
@libbyrafferty3759
4 ай бұрын
@@--Nath-- Charity begins at home. It’s a human right of our own citizens not to be homeless, hungry, under educated, not cared for adequately in old age, not to be impoverished to be able to afford power and fuel, not to have a failed health system, not to have inadequate mental health care, not to have inadequate resources just because you don’t live in the ‘burbs. We have Aboriginal people still living in poverty, addiction and dysfunction. But sure….let’s fund foreign conflicts dear.
There are two organisations administered by the UN that look after refugees worldwide. One which is UNRWA which gets about $1bn annually, looks after circa 2Million Gazans and has 30,000 staff, the majority of which are in Gaza. The second organisation {also administered by UN} has a budget of around $6bn annually, looks after circa 100Million and has 15,000 staff. The smaller agency {UNRWA} was set up by the UN to deliver the unique needs of Palestinians. One “need” is to give perpetual refugee status to all citizens {irrespective of their refugee status} and to propagate refugee status automatically. A child who has never seen a moment of conflict is still captured in the Refugee trap. It seems that Palestinians will be refugees forever. Another unique need is to set up a food distribution service that will run in perpetuity. It seems that despite occupying the desert lands with nearby potential sources of desalinated water, Palestinians are not capable of being independent for growing food. They seem to be preoccupied with firing bullets rather than planting carrots.
@jestubay9006
4 ай бұрын
That's disturbing me as well. I work hard. I pay my taxes. And these people for the fking love of me, how the hell did UNRWA manage to hoodwink the world of perpetuating this MASSIVE REFUGEE CASH COW? Imagine milking and taking advantage of the world for over 70 years. 70.F.KING.YEARS!!! A year refugee status I would understand. 10 years is quite a stretch but wouldn't they have already found places for them to start anew??? Let alone 70 F.KING.YEARS!!! This is just abuse. Totally abusive. Stop the free loaders and dole bludgers. No more handouts. Are the palestinians physically incapacitated?? Physically disabled?? Mentally disturbed??? What's keeping them in refugee status?? Right of return??? FFS. They have started this war in 1948 when Israel announced its statehood. Instead of announcing also their own statehood, Palestinians rejected the first UN partition and along with 5 other neighboring Arab countries ganged up and went on to attack and tried to eradicate the newly established Jewish state. Needless to say, Israel stood its ground and won the war. And every major war hereafter. Start war, loses war, you lose land. Bitter pill to swallow. They are now spoils of war they themselves started. They have lost the right to demand anything and to dictate policy. Consequences of war. They never were good neighbors either. Israel always on the defensive. And whenever Israel goes on offensive and retaliatory mode, how predictable that 'colonialists, apartheid, genocide' are quickly thrown out. WTF.
@acqueenarkpyanne721
4 ай бұрын
Isarel.left them with everything in gaza n they decided to ripped apart n put to fire all the infrastructure built by islarel for.them.to to succeed. But now they pulled apart evrything n did not intend to build desalinarii for plants nor farms with billions of dollars they got.but instead want to fire rockets into in to islarel..these people are just something else lol .primitives
@Blackheathenly
4 ай бұрын
You are ignorant.
She now will be known as Penny Wrong!
Defund Unwra
Omfg that things got the cheque book
she should change her name to Wrong
Australia gave her family a home and she does nothing but bag the Australia way of life!
wong should be facing criminal charges for this level of failure of duty. she answers nothing here.
FK Gazza let FKn Iran support them
UNHCR can replace UNRWA and states as much.
Wats wong wit Penny… Handsome boy.
She's so FOS!!!!
liar liar
Haha what a joke man
Lies and deflections from Mr Wong yet again
what about the near 27 million suffering and starving in our country because of your neglect to aussies
UNRWA is business organization
Let me tell you a joke: UN investigates UNRWA.
Helping others in more need is good however I do not want to keep funding UNWRA if that money goes to the Palestain government and HAMAS, criminals who do not care about their own Palestinians, what we know now is that for years the money sent didn't reach the oppressed population.
UNRWA is required to use text books from the host nation and has no control over what is included. UNRWA provides supplementary materials for teachers to use in place of parts of texts which may be controversial. In Gaza texts are provided by the PA and are vetted.
@satiricgames2129
4 ай бұрын
By UNRWA lol
@TheThoughtfulMinority2067
4 ай бұрын
@@satiricgames2129 15 July 2022 - Today, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) shared with Agency partners the results of its review of a recently released report by IMPACT-se alleging UNRWA knowingly utilizes educational materials outside of UN values. The Agency review concluded that the self-learning materials cited in the report are not authorized for use in any UNRWA school. IMPACT-se is an organization already well known for its previous sensationalized attempts to delegitimize the Agency’s work. Stenseth reminded partners that this organization’s latest report was consistent with its other sensationalized work, characterized in a robust 2021 academic review undertaken by the Georg Eckart Institute on behalf of the European Commission as “marked by generalising and exaggerated conclusions based on methodological shortcomings.” In reviewing the material referenced in the report though, UNRWA discovered the existence of a private, commercial website that illegally utilizes the Agency’s logo and the names of UNRWA educators. The Agency is seeking additional information on these sites for follow-up action, including possible legal referral. Stenseth expressed hope the report’s authors will fully disclose the web addresses of the sites it uncovered. Looks like an Israeli "NGO" making up allegations doesn't it? tinyurl.com/mr36wekw
I bet most of UNRWA's funds actually goes into tunnels and weapons not the civilians
@Maya_s1999
4 ай бұрын
Evidence????
What is not needed is you Wong
Doesnt meen it doesnt give funding to terrorist
John 12:35-36 - "...Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light" - Jesus
Unhcr
Wong word salad!
no one question was answered, thanks
Stop the funding easy stop telling Australian people we don’t care about you penny wrong
Will not vote for labour, avoiding telling the truth.
Penny Wong to sue for funding Hamas
How about you fund the homeless AUSTRALIAN'S, we need help, we are the priority not government or their agenda. Help the AUSTRALIAN people we don't care about the Palestinian people
Have you been on a junket?
OMG II thought that we were decent caring ppl judging by the majority of comments in this stream I was wrong. There are ppl who have bought into the lies and propaganda. Not going to say who because if I do my comments disappear.
@satiricgames2129
4 ай бұрын
Cya liar
The UN can do.that.. they r known for.that..... cut UNRWA
Lies penny lies
Un and red cross lol the whos who of anti semtisim
Wong is shameful 😢
Where is the zero tolerance for crime simple as this why she make things complicated and simply there is not a logic behind to favour crime ? Who VOTED terrorists supporters we are not talking about foreign countries but here in Australia she is not representing Australian?
He is a lying hound
So, how many actually know what UNWRA is and what it actually does. A "claim" is made. The evidence of these claims are have not been established, or has the true extent of the claims been verified. The Minister is correct the only group capable and in place in Gaza, is UNRWA, so the tragedy, now taking place an epic humanitarian crisis, does this mean that the guilt by association is further extended to the people of Gaza, and in particular the children. Political point scoring, must cease, solutions, must be found. Stop the killing.
Any questions about the plausible genocide happening in Gaza?
You are talking about the funding to people who are facing GENOCIDE.
@jittmet7766
4 ай бұрын
They're funding Hamas.
@peterolsen9131
4 ай бұрын
correction, they are funding the people that declared genocide of the jews is their goal, its in their charter , who is facing genocide? the palistinians are syrians , lebanese and other arab refugees from all over, so their geenes are all different , the jews are one race that the arabs want wiped out, THAT is the dicionary meaning of genocide, going after a race, not realestate
@GODOURSALVATION.
4 ай бұрын
Funding to unwra, unwra is hamas, and their main aim according to their own charter and admission is the genocide of the Jewish people. Pls educate yourself.
@dave9547
4 ай бұрын
She doesn't care. It's called being heartless and partisan. Penny Wong is the same.
@rogerramjet9505
4 ай бұрын
So?
People in these comments need to stop frothing at the mouth and recognise Australia’s responsibility to legitimately address humanitarian aid, including what you’d expect for yourself and your own family in these circumstances.
@harryk377
4 ай бұрын
Well said 💯
@kerryevans2038
4 ай бұрын
Yes but that is the point the money is not going to those that need it
@dianacasey6002
4 ай бұрын
@@kerryevans2038evidence
@satiricgames2129
4 ай бұрын
Oh no money should not be going to terrorism and there are other bodies that can run the the situation way better than what this body is doing
traitor
Penny wrong