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Middle East


Mehreen Faruqi

Mehreen Faruqi NSW, Australian Greens

12:01 pm

The substantive matter is genocide. It's been three years of genocide where the Albanese government has done nothing. That is why the matter is urgent. We bring this motion as an urgency motion for the government to act. This government can't call these atrocities and war crimes what they really are, which is genocide. That is why this matter is urgent: because for three years the Albanese government has taken no action to stop the genocide. For three years, the Albanese government's impunity and active support for Israel's depravity and evil has led to this genocide continuing. That is why this matter is urgent. Rather than stopping the arms trade and rather than imposing sanctions on Israel to stop this genocide, they've been trying to shut down those of us who have been calling out this injustice and this genocide. That is why this matter is urgent. An overwhelming majority of Australians think that what Israel is doing is wrong. That is why this matter is urgent. But, rather than stopping the genocide, what the government has been doing for three years and counting is weaponising legislation to silence us. Rather than stopping the genocide, what the Albanese government, with One Nation and with the coalition, have been doing is gaslighting those who try to speak out.

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