David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw that. Labor, the coalition and One Nation have all come together to try and shut the door today on 7,200 Iranians who have been granted visas that would entitle them to come to this country and then, when they're onshore, seek the protection of this country from a brutal regime and the bombs falling from Israeli and US planes and the missiles coming from Israeli and US warships and installations.

This is a war that all three of the war parties—Labor, the coalition and One Nation—support. You all support the war. You support your Uncle Donald, the fascist duck over in the United States, who has commenced this war in gross breach of international law—in obscene breach of international law. Now you see the consequences of the war that you support, congratulate and endorse. You see the consequences of this war in real people's lives. People are seeing their country destroyed from the air and attacked by its own regime. People are seeing black rain falling from the sky because of the Israeli and US bombs and missiles that have taken out huge oil reservoirs near Teheran.

You've seen the images of the school that was blown up by a US missile, now admitted to by the US—maybe not by Donald Trump, who's still pretending that the missile was stolen by some Iranian secret agent. But you don't mind the lies. You don't mind Donald Trump's lies, because you're supporting a war based on those lies, and now you see the consequences of it: the dead schoolkids, the grieving mums, the country in despair, the ripple of chaos around the region. With all of that, with that wave of despair passing over the Middle East, you then shut the door on 7,200 Iranians who could have had a chance for some safety.

Labor are trumpeting the fact that they gave a life raft to five or six incredibly brave Iranian women's football team players. It seems to me that Labor's position on helping the Iranian people—refugees that are coming from Iran—is that they will only help refugees if they can excel at sport and Labor can manipulate that for a media moment, or if Donald Trump rings them up at 2 am and tells them to. Unless you get the phone call from Donald Trump or you see it as a media opportunity, you do not care about Iranian people fleeing their regime or fleeing the war that you support—the war that the Albanese Labor government supports and has now made Australia a part of by deploying Australian troops.

Maybe next time, before you three war parties—Labor, the coalition and one Nation—support another illegal US war, you should reflect just for a moment upon the actual lives that you are destroying, the countries whose tearing apart you are supporting and the misery that you support every time you support another US forever war. Think about where it will end—because it turns out that, once your mate Donald starts one of these wars, the other side gets a vote in it too—and the unpredictability, chaos and violence that comes every time a nation starts a war.

So of course we want this to go to an inquiry. Let's be clear: we will do everything we can to stop you three war parties shutting the door on Iranian refugees. That's one of the reasons we want this to go to an inquiry which would report by 27 June. I would have shot this bill to the moon if we could have, to keep the door open so that this country can show some decency. As for those 7,200 Iranians, think about the grief that they're in and about this country shutting the door on them like this, Labor.