Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

If the member for Throsby cared to read the matter of public importance she would find that it says:

The failure of the government to discharge its obligations in relation to the national security and trade interests of Australia.

It could not be more broad. I am commenting with respect to the national security of Australia, because the security of Israel, our support for Israel and our opposition to terrorism are all about the national security of Australia.

The ALP’s record on national security is at best ambiguous and at worst disgraceful. The member for Fowler in this place only last year referred to the actions of Israel as creating a ghetto-like walled compound around the West Bank and Gaza. She also referred to concentration camps in relation to the state of Israel, which is deeply offensive to the Jewish people, given the history of the Jewish people and the Shoah during the Second World War. She also has referred in previous debates in this House in a most offensive way to Israel—

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