Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

You don't have to bang lecterns to show you're concerned. What you have to do is to show respect and engage in an orderly, respectful way. We have responded in that way in the meetings with the Jewish community. We didn't wait. We have appointed the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism. Within days, we began the legislation. Of course, we'd already appointed the National Student Ombudsman. We have appointed David Gonski to look through the education schemes. We've gone through. Professor Craven has been appointed to do the report card as well. We have been going through the envoy's report, one by one. A key element of it was vilification, and they opposed it. They wouldn't support it, and that's why they, together with the Greens, were there.

At the same time, those opposite—the gap between what they've called for and what has occurred is remarkable. They said they had a package of legislation on 5 January. Where is it? No-one has seen it. (Time expired)

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