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

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination commemorates the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa, where 69 anti-apartheid protesters were killed by police. Six decades on, it is hard to escape the reality here in Australia of police crackdowns, arrests and silencing of protesters standing against Israel's genocide and apartheid. Minister, when will the government realise that assaulting, demonising and repressing anti-genocide, anti-apartheid protesters is racism?