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

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister. On Eid morning, Prime Minister Albanese and Minister Burke attended Lakemba Mosque during Eid prayers. Muslims, understandably, expressed their frustration and anger at the Labor government's complicity in and inaction on Isreal's genocide in Gaza. Instead of acknowledging these sentiments, the Prime Minister left the mosque in a rush, ignored community criticism and misled the media about why people were confronting him. On the religious festival of Eid, the Prime Minister indulged in far-right talking points to delegitimise people angry about his presence in the mosque and Labor's complicity in the genocide, linking them with extremism. Minister, why did the Prime Minister lie and mislead the media?