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Senator FARUQI (New South Wales—Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens) (11:40): The Labor Party are cowards, and they are hypocrites. They talk no end of rules based order and upholding international law. They talk about human rights till the cows come home.

When there is a community sponsored legislation here, they won't even allow it to go to an inquiry so it can be examined so that Australia's complicity in Israel's genocide on Gaza can be shown. There are more than 80,000 Palestinians who have been killed in the last three years by Israel. More than 22,000 children have been killed, and the blood is on the hands of the Labor Party.

That is what they are trying to hide. No-one out there in the community is fooled. They all know that Labor is complicit in this genocide.

They still export weapons and weapons parts. They have taken no action to stop the genocide. Even one of our own Australian aid workers has been killed.

They have done nothing. Journalists have been killed. Healthcare workers have been killed.

All are breaches of international law and all war crimes, but you don't want to do anything, and you want to hide behind not even having an inquiry. You try and put a veil on what you have done. There was a time when the people in this country had some hope in the Labor Party.

I mean, heck, there was a time where I even had some glimmers of hope in the Labor Party, but I think that time has long gone. There is no glimmer of hope in this Labor Party. They have no integrity.

They have no morality. They are just hopeless, gutless cowards. That's who you are, and the community knows this.

There was a time that I thought with the Greens could hopefully push Labor to be better, but you cannot be better. I have come to the conclusion that you all need to be kicked out. You need to be replaced by people who have some guts, who have some morality and who can give the people of this country some joy and some hope.

That's not you or you, either.