I seek leave to move a motion relating to genocide as circulated.

Leave not granted.

Pursuant to contingent notice of motion standing in my name, I move:

That so much of the standing orders be suspended as would prevent me moving a motion to provide for the consideration of a matter, namely a motion to give precedence to a motion relating to genocide.

I'm proposing the suspension of standing orders today because last week marked three years of Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people. This means three years of relentless, intentional killing, destruction and displacement; three years of Israel using starvation as a tool for genocide; and three years of this country doing nothing to stop this genocide. I seek to suspend standing orders to move this important motion to call out the continued inaction of the Labor government in the face of a genocide broadcast live to the world. Under the genocide convention, which this country is signed up to, it is our obligation to punish and prevent the crime of genocide and to act to stop it wherever it occurs. There is no excuse. It is clear that what Israel is doing constitutes genocide.

In September last year, the United Nations independent international commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and called on all states to fulfil their legal obligations to prevent—