House debates

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Motions

Middle East

10:49 am

Photo of Peter DuttonPeter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

The fact is that the Prime Minister of our country should be standing here and showing strength of leadership in support of the Jewish community here in Australia against this appalling motion, and yet at the next election the Prime Minister will take the Greens preferences. There will be a deal between the Labor Party and the Greens party to swap preferences to win the election.

Now, we need to point out that the Greens—and they're not ashamed of it—have shown antisemitic conduct at a state level and here in the federal parliament on a daily basis. It hasn't been called out by the Labor Party, because the Labor Party's trying to walk both sides of the street. I can assure the Australian public that our coalition will stand shoulder to shoulder with people of the Jewish community in this country to make sure that we stand up against the attacks, to recognise that people are living in fear and to recognise the reality that there are further security services, this very day, being applied to Jewish schools, to places of worship and to other places of gathering.

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