Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Gaza is starving. Words won't feed them. Sanction Israel. That is the truth on the sign that I held up in the Senate yesterday, and I will not back down from this goal, because Palestinians are being murdered, starved and displaced by Israel as we speak and all you can do is crack down on people who protest, who tell the truth, who hold up a mirror to you all for your silence and complicity. Labor and the coalition in this chamber want to avoid the truth. You don't want to see it or hear it, and now here we are. You want to force me to apologise for telling the truth. Well, well done. You can all pat yourselves on the back and move on while Palestinians are slaughtered.

MPs here and outside of here are accusing me of being disrespectful and denigrating the parliament. You should all reflect, for a minute even, on your silence and your complicity in and even enabling of a genocide. That is what degrades this place and that is what reflects poorly on this place—not a sign trying to wake you up from your moral stupor. But do you know what? You are more focused on cracking down on black and brown women in this parliament. You've done this before.