Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens are extremely disappointed that the opposition has refused to allow Senator Payman to table this list of 17,000 children's names—the names of children who are now dead, innocent children who have died in this brutal war, this brutal attack on innocent civilians and families—and we are disappointed to hear that pathetic excuse from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. If you can't bring yourself to even acknowledge, let alone condemn, the killing of innocent children, nothing will ever melt your heart, ever. It is just abhorrent that, day after day, all we hear from the opposition on this topic is excuse after excuse after excuse and justifications for the murder of children, the starvation of children and using children as weapons in war.