Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I can save the government and opposition whips the opportunity of reading into the record a condescending statement about how this is a complex foreign policy matter. I presume that that is the reason that the Senate is not even going to be able to express a view on this matter. The motion effectively goes to the fact that Australia, together with 155 other states, participated in the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons on 8 and 9 December last year.

Eighty-five nations have signed that pledge, and this is about nuclear weapons abolition—weapons that have no strategic military utility but would have a massive humanitarian impact were they ever used. Eighty-five countries have signed that pledge. Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, who has—