Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) | Hansard source

on indulgence—I join with the Prime Minister in the condemnation of these senseless acts. I thank the member for New England for the question and understand and acknowledge the very real concern he has, like every decent Australian has, about the scenes and what we've seen playing out not just at the War Memorial sites but also outside the offices of members of parliament, including the Prime Minister's office, what we've seen outside Jewish schools and what we've seen on university campuses and across society where these acts of anti-Semitism have taken place.

'From the river to the sea,' as the Prime Minister has noted before in this chamber, is an abomination. That comment is all about the elimination of a race of people. What the Jewish community is going through in our country at the moment is completely and utterly unacceptable, and the people who have committed these offences rightly stand condemned. As the Prime Minister rightly points out, unfortunately, there haven't been arrests that have taken place so far, and I hope that the police can double-down on their efforts to identify these people and to allow a very clear message to be sent to those of a similar mind that these acts are not to be condoned in our society.

Those men and women—the 103,000—who have lost their lives serving our nation have done so for our lifestyle to be maintained and for our life in this country to continue as it does today. We don't do their memory any service by what we've seen at the War Memorial, whether it's the Australian War Memorial or whether it is any commemoration of the life and sacrifice of the men and women of the Australian Defence Force. They rightly stand condemned for these actions, and we hope that they shall not be repeated.

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