Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

In the past hour, the Albanese government has introduced sweeping powers to stop refugees fleeing the bombs in Iran and around the Middle East—on the very same day that the Prime Minister is offering protection to the Iranian women's soccer team, this government is now slamming the door shut for anybody else. What have we become? A country led by a government that backs Trump's bloody war and then deserts the very people we are meant to be helping. After backing Trump's escalating war, seeing schoolchildren bombed to death and innocent families killed, we are then stopping these very same people—these families; these men, women, children and babies—from being able to seek refuge. This is sick, obscene politics. The Labor government is locked in a race to the bottom with the Liberal Party and One Nation. Now we see the real politics before us: dropping bombs, cheering on Trump's bombing and then shutting the door on those fleeing the violence.

War kills people. Wars create refugees. People are fleeing because their homes, their schools and their hospitals are being destroyed. Their family members are being killed. The sheer hypocrisy of this government to rush into this parliament this week laws that give sweeping powers to keep the very people who need our help away from our country, slamming the door in their face and cheering on Trump's bombs, is disgusting. (Time expired)