Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, representing the Prime Minister. Attorney, I refer you to the humanitarian disaster currently unfolding in Myanmar, and the ongoing persecution of the Rohingyan people by the Myanmar military. The most recent figures, I am sure you will agree, show that almost 300,000 Rohingyan people have fled Rakhine State in the last 10 days—that is 30,000 a day—and crossed the border into Bangladesh. Is the funding of up to $5 million announced on the weekend the entirety of the Australian government's response to this crisis? And when will the Prime Minister follow the lead of other global leaders and personally express concern about the situation in Myanmar?