Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to speak today about the huge rallies we saw over the weekend in support of the Palestinian people. This is what hope looks like—hundreds of thousands of people rallying across the country, calling for an end to the genocide and for the government to sanction Israel and end their arms trade with it. There were 50,000 in Brisbane alone, an incredible cross-section of the community, all united because they see what this government won't: that when a genocide is happening you do everything in your power to stop it. This is a powerful movement that can win. It is part of a powerful global movement that can stop the genocide.

But Labor and the Liberals don't want you to think that's possible. They want you to think it's okay to continue exporting crucial parts of F-35 jets that allow Israel to drop bombs on Gaza. They want you to think it's okay not to sanction Israel as we did Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. They want you to think it's acceptable to maintain diplomatic and trade ties with a state committing genocide and to continue to refer to it as a friend and ally. Hundreds of thousands of people sent a message to the government over the weekend: you cannot hide from your complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza.