QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator FARUQI (New South Wales—Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (15:04): My question is to Minister Wong. Minister, Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and six of her colleagues were hunted and murdered by the Israeli army. For over two years, your government has insisted on allowing the Israeli government to investigate itself.

Now—no surprises—the war criminals have ruled that they have no case to answer. You were warned repeatedly that relying on murderers to investigate themselves would never deliver justice, yet somehow you believed that words would compel a state engaged in genocide—a state that has killed 20,000 children, a state that kidnapped and assaulted Australian citizens aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Minister, does your government accept any responsibility for not getting justice for Zomi? How much more humiliation will you put this country through before you take action?