I’ve asked organisers for a list of politicians who have read out names from the book of Palestinian children killed by Israel. This vigil comes after Australia signed a statement calling for an immediate end to Israel’s war on Gaza by the way. It’s not as if it’s ‘complicated’.

Ed Husic – Labor

Mehreen Faruqi – Greens

David Shoebridge – Greens

Larissa Waters – Greens

Nick McKim – Greens

Penny Allman-Payne – Greens

David Pocock – Independent

Independents Andrew Wilkie and Fatima Payman are scheduled to read names later today. Labor’s Alicia Payne had been scheduled (and was among the list of names on the vigil’s media alert, but cancelled. Independent Sophie Scamps came to the vigil but did not read names.

Other notable names include Mohamed Duar, the Amnesty Lead for the Occupied Territories of Palestine, Dr Jordy Silverstein, cultural historian and advocate , Sarah Schwartz, lawyer and executive officer of the Jewish council of Australia, Suzan Waheb, the president of the Palestinian Christians Australia, Sara Saleh, author and poet, Ahmed Abadia from the Palestine Justice Movement in Sydney, author, broadcaster, writer and speaker Clementine Ford and First Nations rapper Dobby and so many more – health care workers, midwives, actors, activists and just people who needed to do more than just watch.