Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has criticised the government for abstaining from voting a United Nations motion for a truce between Israel and Hamas, labelling the prime minister "weak".
I haven't read the article and I'm not following the situation at all, but that tends to be the reason behind most things. If the yanks say no to something, most of the world is generally expected to follow suit, or at the very least not oppose them
SBS have an article that actually explains the reasoning which I thought was pretty fair. link
Dunno how accurate the article is, but the reason seems to be:
"US voted no"
I haven't read the article and I'm not following the situation at all, but that tends to be the reason behind most things. If the yanks say no to something, most of the world is generally expected to follow suit, or at the very least not oppose them