Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Defence, Senator Payne. Minister, the coalition's new member for New South Wales, Senator Molan, has previously called for a ban on Islamic immigration and the suspension of habeas corpus, the longstanding right to trial before detention. Now he defends sharing white supremacist material on social media by saying that he's not a racist, because he's lived overseas and, in his own words, 'he ran the war in Iraq'. That, of course, includes responsibility for the assault on Fallujah, the assault that resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe with civilians denied food, water, and aid. Minister, why have you adopted a lower standard than our allies, who universally condemned the President of the United States of America for sharing similar material?