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

My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister Wong. Minister, your government has been complicit in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Now not only have you backed the illegal Israel/US led war but you have taken us to war. Trump and Netanyahu are bombing civilian infrastructure—apartment blocks, hospitals and schools—and killing children, women and men in Iran and Lebanon. At the same time, Israel intensifies its war crimes in Gaza and the West Bank. Israel is killing civilians in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran at the same time. The Prime Minister said last year:

The position of the Australian Government is clear: every innocent life matters.

Yet you continue to support Israel and cheerlead Trump's bombing campaign, which has killed close to 2,000 civilians just in the last two weeks. Was the Prime Minister's statement just hollow words?