QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS

Senator FARUQI (New South Wales—Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (15:23): I move: That the Senate take note of the answer given by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Wong) to a question without notice I asked today relating to Palestine. Israel's depraved, monstrous and evil crimes go beyond using children as target practice, and I shared some appalling examples, like the 10-day-old baby shot in the head while being breastfed.

The independent report adds to the evidence that Israel has systematically targeted hospitals and health infrastructure while intentionally depriving children of the nutrition, safety and support that they need to live a life, let alone thrive. In response to Russia's war in Ukraine, the Australian government imposed comprehensive sanctions and have extended them in the years since.

Here is the racist double standard that calls out some crimes against humanity while allowing genocide in Gaza to go unpunished. Despite pleas for years and the mounting death toll, Labor has time and again refused to impose comprehensive sanctions on our trade relationship with Israel. Narrow sanctions against a few individuals do not cut it when the murderous apparatus of the Israeli state and its military are hell-bent on the root-and-branch destruction of Palestinian people.

A refusal to call this genocide what it is does not cut it when Palestinians continue to be murdered long after the so-called ceasefire. What a farce. It breaks my heart that anyone in power could read all of the stories in this report—of torture, of sexual abuse, of children killed while playing together—and then stay passive.

How can we see Israel's allies in this parliament, Labor, the Liberals and One Nation, as anything but apologists for child killers? Here is, very simply, what I'm asking the Albanese Labor government to do for the children of Palestine: end the arms trade between Australia and Israel, put comprehensive trade sanctions against Israel and call a genocide for what it is: a genocide.