Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, it has been circulated. I'm going through the proper process. I move the amendment:

Senator Thorpe, by leave, moved the following amendment to Senator McAllister's amendment:

Omit paragraphs (a) to (d), substitute:

condemns:

the racist, white supremacist and anti-immigrant rallies held over the weekend and condemns the support of and attendance at the rallies by MPs, and

the far-right extremist neo-Nazis, including the National Socialist Network, who in Melbourne attacked Camp Sovereignty, a site of Aboriginal resistance and sacred resting place of 38 Nations;

notes that:

racism and anti-immigrant hate has been normalised and legitimised in this country by politicians and by the media who fan the flames of hate,

dog whistling on First Peoples, migrants, refugees and international students by politicians of all stripes has emboldened the far right,

politicians have used hate, fear and scapegoating to cover up their own policy failures on the housing and cost of living crises,

the alarm has been sounded on far-right extremism for years and has been routinely ignored, and

the far-right movement in this country is a continuation of the original violence and genocide against First Peoples that has occurred since invasion;

reiterates its solidarity with the communities who bear the brunt of white supremacy, neo-Nazism and right-wing extremism; and

calls on the Government to:

condemn these white supremacist attacks, and

ensure the Australian Federal Police investigates the attacks on Camp Sovereignty as hate crimes and acts of terrorism.