I just spent 10 minutes reading three pages of names of children who have been killed in Gaza by Israel over the last 22 months.

This is just the names who have been recorded.

They are babies. Just kids.

At the same time there is a giant group having a photo outside the house, jovial, enjoying their time outside Australia’s parliament, in front of a building built on a hill, with a lawn on top because politicians should always remember the people sit on top of them.

That group are looking towards the War Memorial, which honours Australian soldiers who have served, and lost so much including their lives, for Australia. Including those soldiers who who fought and died in battles in Palestine.

We are supposed to up hold the freedoms they fought for. That’s why the parliament looks towards the war memorial – to remember the cost of freedom.

We are failing. We are failing. We are failing.