QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator THORPE (Victoria—Independent VIC Whip) (14:29): New groundbreaking, peer reviewed research published in the Nature journal yesterday shows 2.2 million First Peoples lived on this continent before invasion—2.2 million, not 250,000 as previously thought. Over two million people were wiped out in the first years of invasion. What would you call wiping out up to two million people if not genocide? (Time expired)