Senate debates

Thursday, 15 September 2011

Motions

Kurdish Society of Victoria

11:58 am

Photo of Richard Di NataleRichard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

  (a)   acknowledges the positive contribution made to Australian society by the Kurdish community;

  (b)   condemns the recent attacks on the Kurdish Society of Victoria, including an arson attack and shooting of their community centre; and

  (c)   calls on local and federal authorities:

     (i)   to investigate these attacks as a matter of urgency, and

     (ii)   to determine whether these attacks constitute a coordinated campaign of intimidation against the Victorian Kurdish community.

Question agreed to.