Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I ask that general business notice of motion No. 1109 standing in my name for today relating to anti-Semitism be taken as a formal motion.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Is there any objection to this motion being taken as formal? There is an objection to this motion being taken as formal. Formality has been denied.

Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In lieu of suspending standing orders, I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This motion was to actually define anti-Semitism, as it is by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, as a certain perception of Jews which may be expressed as:

… hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism … directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.

This has been introduced into the UK and it's a shame that people here won't support this motion today. The Jewish community will be absolutely gobsmacked that you have not supported them in this. They have been asking for this to be introduced and you have not done it. So you can answer to the Jewish community.

Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for International Development and the Pacific) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In 2013, every federal coalition parliamentarian signed the London declaration. The declaration calls upon governments, parliaments, international institutions, NGOs and civil society to affirm democratic and human values, build societies based on respect and citizenship, and combat any manifestation of anti-Semitism or discrimination. The London declaration endorses the European Union monitoring mission's working definition of anti-Semitism, which is the predecessor to the working definition of anti-Semitism adopted in May 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, an international organisation of 31 democratic countries, that is set out in this motion. The government completely condemns anti-Semitism.