Usman Khawaja speaks to parliament

To save a professional athlete from their preparations throughout the year to talk about social issues requires a certain gravity, but it requires one more in the Straits of the Parliament Building.

The seriousness of Australian Test opener Usman Khawaja talked about Gaza and Gambling Reform on Thursday, and that independent senator David Pocock spoke from the back seat of a Hyundai i30 belonging to a staff.

Khawaja says that as a stranger, his status only receives a bite from the cherry, and led to a constant interview and meetings program with politicians on the hurricane day in Canberra.

The day was overshadowed by a meeting that was initially canceled with the Prime Minister.good wife“, Anthony Arbanese’nin program to come in and find time. Chalmers, the press yesterday” [go ahead]”.

Eventually, Khawaja had the chance to meet with Albanian and gambling reform about the reform of Gaza and gambling, which was heavily criticized for the slow action.

He said Crirase He was not satisfied with the speed of action on the conflicts in the Middle East, and called for sanctions on the beginning of the week in Israel. trade banand one sporting ban From the international arena.

“A death is too much, but sometimes these things take a long time, Kk Khawaja said.

“I mean change in the last two years, trying to make big changes, trying to change people’s soul and all their lives throughout their lives, I learned that it will take time.

“What is complex about the massacre of dying innocent children and innocent children?”

When he was asked if he thought he had thought that Australia treated the Palestinian perspective with equal weight during the Israeli-Gazze conflict, Khawaja was not certain.

“Not in the past, no. Absolutely no. Media did not, people did not do it, but there was only a lack of knowledge for people to understand. As you hear everyone ‘very political,’ religious division ‘, but in the most important thing, what Israel was a guest was a human issue.

“They were breaking international law… and they were committing war crimes throughout this campaign. And this was at its most important point.”

Despite his dissatisfaction and the government’s criticism of Gaza – before defined The Government and Australia, Israel’s actions in the region as a “criminal partner ,, Khawaja said the war did not change its votes in the last federal elections.

“I watched [former opposition leader] Peter Dutton hasn’t been compatible with him for a long time. This was a very easy decision and my values ​​are compatible with what the Labor Party mentioned.

“I have voted liberals in my life until recently. [Dutton] he said. ”

Khawaja, criticism For Dutton in the past, he described his 2024 statements about Muslim candidates as “absolute embarrassment” and “fueled Islamophobia from the top”.

HE said Patricia Karves in ABCs In the afternoon briefing that it will not exclude a political slope in the future – and Crirase Do very little to eliminate the rumors that the Labor Party sees him as a candidate.

Senior labor resources have explained before Crirase They think that Khawaja is an ambassador for the party and their commitment is low.

Khawaja protects strong connections to both Sydney and Brisbane’s labor seats. He played for the valleys in the first -class competition in Brisbane’s marginal labor seat of Brisbane, and he grew up in Westmead, west of Sydney, and was accepted as Labour Heartland. In addition, in the section of Kingsford-Smith, one of the most secure working seats of the country, the Maroubra-based Randwick-Petersham Cricket Club passed through.

Alp, for the first time with Australian test doughs close to retirement, did not try to improve themselves. PowerBrokers tried it heal Former test captain Steve Waugh, John Faulkner, who saw him as a future leader.

By turning the conversation to the other issue he went to Canberra, Khawaja pointed out something to explain the inactivity of the government’s inactivity in his Murphy report.

“Cash money. It is so simple. It is always about money, the same as the tobacco industry during the day. People try to threaten sports organizations… And yes, there is a lot of money in this regard, but some things are more important than money.”

Khawaja asked him to ban ads during games, a call echoes In the government’s report, 26 advice is 26 stages.

“I don’t think there should be any gambling advertising during the games, because many children are watching sports and we have a responsibility for these children,” he said.

When asked about commercial arrangements Big Sports Codes with Great Bookmakers, including Cricket Australia ( Less More than football codes), Khawaja said, “No one seems to do nothing about it,” he said.

“Sports codes definitely make money [gambling] But I think… How to make money is as important as you do it.

“Sports, yes, a fun is a business, but we have a responsibility for all stakeholders, especially young generations, especially for children.

“There is a responsibility that all codes need to take, and yes, there will be a little cost, but the same thing was applied, the same thing happened in the tobacco industries… And there was a responsibility there. I think now the same thing should be.”

Todd Greenberg, CEO of Cricket Australia, said at a press conference on Thursday that the launch of Play Crick Month, gambling reform was “a warm issue with the federal government with all suggestions and we were interested in it”.

“I think you can see that Cricket is quite conservative in this part of our business (gambling advertising). But I think Uzzie is within the right to have its own views and we will encourage it.”