Greens condemn Australia move to send missiles to UAE

Australian Greens leader Larissa Waters criticised Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s decision to send military support to the United Arab Emirates, saying Australia should be calling for peace rather than sending weapons.

In a statement, Waters warned that Australians do not want to be drawn into what she described as the United States and Israel’s war on Iran.

“Australians do not want to get dragged into Trump and Netanyahu’s illegal war on Iran,” the senator said in a statement.

“Labor shouldn’t be sending troops to help a military that’s killed 150 schoolchildren in a primary school bombing,” she said. “That will only escalate an illegal conflict that’s already spiralling out of control, and leave Australia trapped in yet another forever war.”

Prime Minister Albanese has said Australia will deploy a military surveillance aircraft to the Middle East following a request from the UAE, as well as medium-range air-to-air missiles.