Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

What's going on in Gaza right now is a brutal, calculated slaughter of innocent people. It is a mass murder of civilians. It is the deliberate, engineered use of hunger and starvation as a weapon of war, and people are dying in their droves. Babies are starving to death because of this slaughter and these war crimes.

This, of course, is being perpetrated by the government of Israel, but let's not kid ourselves that Australia is not complicit in these actions, because we are. We're not just complicit in those actions; we are complicit in the outcomes of those actions, in many ways. But this week we have had to listen to Senator Wong saying that weapons components that are being manufactured in Australia and exported and that are critical in the conduct of this genocide are non-lethal in nature. Give me a break. Stop trying to gaslight Australians, Prime Minister and Senator Wong. I say this to the Prime Minister: if you truly believe, as you have repeatedly stated this week, that these actions of the government of Israel are unacceptable, but you are not using every tool in your toolkit to bring about an end to these actions, then I say you are not being genuine. I say you are running a political line, because Australia should sanction the Netanyahu war cabinet at least to the same level it is sanctioning the Russian government.