QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE: TAKE NOTE OF ANSWERS

Senator McKIM (Tasmania—Australian Greens Whip) (15:40): I move: That the Senate take note of Senator Wong's response to Senator Shoebridge's question. Well, here we find ourselves. A Christian nationalist end-times death cult has got control of the White House, enabled by its fascist, techbro survivalist mates.

And what's the latest perversion that they are going to try to inflict on us? That's right—a livestreamed, state sanctioned snuff movie. Not content with destroying the planet's capacity to sustain human life, not content with stealing the entire intellectual, creative and artistic output of the human race and monetising it for profit, not content with accumulating obscene wealth while billions of people face poverty, starvation, death, disease and displacement, they now want to force a livestreamed execution onto the screens of Australian children.

They are depraved, barbaric psychopaths, and these are the people that the Australian government claims to have shared values with. Well, here is one Australian that does not share those values. We are being ruled by tyrants.

The primary responsibility that a government has to its people is to keep us safe. But in the United States and here in Australia, governments are not only failing to do that; they are actively exposing us to danger—climate and ecosystem collapse, artificial intelligence, war, genocide, necrocapitalism. These governments claim legitimacy, but while they deliberately expose us, the people, to danger, they have none—in particular, while they're exposing us to danger in pursuit of naked political power.

If you think people are just going to sit back and cop this rubbish forever, human history has got some pretty harsh lessons to teach you.