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

You are a disgrace. There was the execution just a few days ago of Kurdish leader, Hevrin Khalaf—unarmed, pulled out of her vehicle and shot to death. She'd been working to unite the Arabs, the Christians and the Kurds in north-east Syria. This is just one example of a number of atrocities that are going on right now in Syria at the hands of the Turkish military, and you've got your head so far up the backside of Donald Trump that you refuse to take a stand on it. You are a disgrace. There are people, Australians, locked up right now in camps, and you refuse to do something about kids who are facing extermination at the hands of a brutal regime. We've abandoned them, left them alone, and here you are playing politics, because you refuse to take a stand. It is an absolute disgrace. It's about time you acknowledged that there are Australians citizens who are locked up right now, and we have had months and months and months to do something about it, to do something about the kids who are starving right now and are confronting disease, and what you are doing is playing politics in this chamber. It's about time you got your head out of the—