My questions are about what the Attorney has done about the failure of his portfolio agency the Australian Human Rights Commission to appropriately deal with the rise of antisemitism since 7 October. The commission is the institution charged with protecting...
Like a number of my Labor colleagues, I had to close my electorate office last Friday, based on security advice, and it’s not the first time I have had to close my office in recent times. People absolutely have a right to protest in this country, but when...
Of course, one other issue which is of significant concern under this government is the issue of student safety on university campuses. There’s been an alarming rise in antisemitism since the appalling Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on 7 October 2023, and yet...
I also refer to Senator David Pocock’s statement on Gaza yesterday. In it he calls for Australia to cut all military ties with Israel. Israel is the only functioning democracy in the Middle East—imperfect, I grant that—and they are a close ally of this country....
I recently visited Israel, and we started looking at the Iron Dome and the David’s Sling technology that they have in that country. If they didn’t have that, it wouldn’t be the case that 99 per cent of those missiles are destroyed in the air, and...
