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Won’t speak for the other two, but they’re Commonwealth so I suspect it’s the same.
The Australian government is only doing this as a hollow P.R. gesture, they’re still cracking down on Palestinian protesters while the cops literally allow Nazi protestors to march unhindered. They only did so much as to recognise Palestine because it’s an entirely meaningless act that looks like it’s achieving something, meanwhile we were still on friendly trading terms with the genocidal Nazis and reaffirming their right to “self defense”.
Even hollow PR gestures have value, assuming it was a hollow PR gesture.
Recognition of Palestinian statehood, however, comes with diplomatic and legal implications, and governments are nothing if not massive conglomerations of machinery that run without concern for the 'deeper' motivations of the originators.
That our governments here in the West are still, largely, pro-Zionist despite the ongoing genocide does not invalidate that positions which would have previously been considered insufficiently pro-Zionist to even be seriously discussed are now the official position of the government.
Fuck Australia's government for cracking down on Palestinian protesters and maintaining ties with Israel, but "Fuck them for being horrifically pro-Zionist" and "This is a step in the right direction" are not mutually exclusive.