Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much. I think what's happened here is that Senator Wong and the Labor Party have been caught with their pants down. They've been usurped by this motion of the Liberal Party, which is bringing it to the attention of the Senate. We've had an attack on Iran, and to say that it's about the people over there—this is a country that for 47 years has been under the attack of a radical Islamic dictatorship, where people were controlled. Again, I'll go back to the Greens worrying about the women and the children murdered. I never heard one word out of them when the attack on Israel happened, where 1,200 people were murdered, slaughtered and taken as hostages. There was not one word about compassion. Let's just disregard that.

When I turned on my television, I saw the Iranian people, not only in Iran but throughout Australia, flying the flag of jubilation and dancing in the streets, happy. That tells you how they feel about this attack. They're not the ones who are objecting to this. They know there has to be hurt and pain if they want to get out of 47 years of control. Their lives have been controlled. You talk about women. What's happened over there? If you were a woman and you took off your hijab or you didn't cover up, you actually got a flogging, you got fined $15,000 or you got imprisoned, and some lost their lives. That's what they've been fighting for. The protests and the lives lost in this past four to five weeks have been deplorable.

I congratulate Senator Trump and the United States. They have now given the people back their freedom and liberty. I congratulate Netanyahu, who is part of this.