But, if you attack and you unleash the dogs of war, don’t come complaining back to me when you get bitten. Who would condemn what the Russians did in Berlin after what they had suffered under the German invasion? You’d do it? Then what will follow will be...
I oppose this suspension of standing orders. This is the wrong motion at the wrong time moved by the wrong people. This will do nothing to change the situation on the ground in the Middle East and it will not do anything to beneficial social cohesion in this country....
The member for Melbourne knows very well that he is not moving a motion today to recognise Palestine; he is moving a procedural motion about not dealing with the parliament’s agenda. The member for Melbourne knows full well that procedural motions like this are...
Thank you, Speaker—members of this place who are from the Labor Party, who are complicit in this genocide in Gaza. It is genuinely remarkable. There is more passion in this place from members of the Labor Party about defending their own reputation than there is in...
Recognition of Palestine is long overdue; 143 countries have already done it. Three more—Norway, Spain and Ireland—joined overnight, and today Australia must stand with them in recognising the state of Palestine. This is not just a symbolic move; it is a critical step...
