David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

What's been tagged as an antisemitism conference on the Gold Coast this weekend is in fact an appalling junket that's been widely criticised as one sided and focusing on supporting Israel rather than taking meaningful action against racism across society, and that racism includes, of course, antisemitism. There have been multiple concerns raised about this summit, including one of its principal sponsors being a significant shareholder in a company called Bisalloy, which, as the genocide continues in Gaza, is directly exporting armoured steel to Israel and directly exporting armoured steel to be used by the Israel Defense Forces and settlers in their continuing unlawful attack on Palestinians in the West Bank. Speakers that are going to this include the former head of the US Neo-Nazi movement. The former head of the US Neo-Nazi movement is at the event, and who else is going? Richard Marles, the defence minister; former Labor prime minister Julia Guillard; Labor mayor of the Inner West Council Darcy Byrne; the human rights commissioner; and the antisemitism commissioner. Where were they all on the weekend speaking out against Neo-Nazis? How dare they go to a conference that is being headlined by the former head of US Neo-Nazi movement.

I would like to extend my and my party's and many millions of Australians' deep condolences to the people of Sudan and the Sudanese diaspora here in Australia. A devastating landslide has destroyed an entire village in the western Darfur region, killing an estimated 1,000 people. It comes on top of the ongoing appalling war in Sudan, now in its third year, which has plunged the country into one of the world's worst human-made humanitarian crises. All of us join in sympathy, condolences and respect with the Sudanese diaspora and those in Sudan suffering.