QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator FARUQI (New South Wales—Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (14:25): You still can't call them 'terrorists' or call what they're doing 'ethnic cleansing'! In your statement on Tuesday, you said you would not impose a blanket ban, in part due to the unintended consequences for Palestinians—Palestinians who have been systematically murdered, tortured, imprisoned, displaced and abused for decades.

Has a single Palestinian person or organisation supported your decision not to impose a trade ban, or are you hiding behind Palestinian suffering to justify refusing to do what a dozen other countries have done?