Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (NT, Country Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. But I stand by my words that suggest that this government are completely and utterly disgraceful in their actions and their behaviours. They effectively just want to silence Senator Hanson and silence decent human beings who come here and want to see better for our country. I think it's utterly disgraceful that you've taken this opportunity.

Again, you stand with those who would stand here, as they have suggested, draped in a Palestinian flag, that support calls 'from the river to the sea', which is effectively an act of genocide against Jewish people. This government has failed to stand up against antisemitism. This government fails to stand up for everyday Australians who seek to ensure that our national flag is protected. Instead, you vilify them as racists. You take away the opportunity to have their voices heard right here where democracy is supposed to play out on the floor of the Senate.

What is it? You're afraid that Australians might cheer on Senator Hanson for standing up for our national flag—that the vast majority of Australians do not wish to see our national flag burnt, that they do wish to see it become illegal for that flag to be burnt? You can't come up with your own ideas? You couldn't come up with this idea before Senator Hanson brought this motion to the Senate? You had to go and co-opt it and turn it into your meaningless nonsense?

Seriously, this is posturing. There's no decency in this. There's no decency in shutting down a senator's opportunity to debate their urgency motion and hijacking it instead. Seriously, what are you afraid of? But it really is not surprising, is it, with this government and that the Labor Party, especially under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who can't even stand up for Australians. Instead, you stand up and you say: 'Let's respect Indigenous Australians. Let's pay our respects'—and the Greens as well, with their pretend respect for Indigenous Australians. But no: they choose to shut down an Indigenous Australian in this Senate for wearing an Australian flag, and then they side with this weak government to shut down any sort of debate or any demonstration of pride in this country. They shut it down. Shame on you! Shame on the Albanese government!