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

My question is to Minister Wong. Minister, late last year, you told the Australian Institute of International Affairs:

Australia will always make our contribution, as part of multilateral efforts to protect civilians and uphold international law—because living in peace shouldn't be contingent on where you were born.

Yet you are now rolling out the red carpet for Isaac Herzog, the President of Israel—a state committing a genocide that has killed at least 70,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children, journalists, aid workers and health workers—a man the UN commission of inquiry said incited genocide. Why are you inviting war criminals to this country, and will you rescind your divisive invitation to President Herzog—something members of your own party have called for?