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

I thank the member for Riverina for his question, and I join him in welcoming the members of that community. The ISIS ideological position is one that seeks to wreak violence, murder and trauma on the world, but no group more than in their local community, than in the Middle East itself. Minority groups like the Yazidi community have suffered greatly.

They have been welcomed to Australia and have been working hard in communities such as yours, working in the agricultural sector. Right throughout Australia, they have been welcomed. We are a welcoming country, and we stand completely against the evil regime that is ISIS. That's why—and I know that the member for Riverina has a proud history of not seeking to promote division or playing politics with these issues—no-one in this place should be doing that. No-one should be suggesting the sort of interjections that I heard across the chamber earlier. We all stand, united as Australians, against Islamic State. We all stand—

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