David Leyonhjelm (NSW, Liberal Democratic Party) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) the United States of America' s Department of State has informed the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Director-General of the United States' intention to withdraw from that organisation on 31 December 2018 due to its continuing anti-Israel bias, and

(ii) Australia is also a friend of Israel, as well as a close ally of the United States; and

(b) calls upon the Government to consider Australia' s membership of UNESCO.