Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I rise on behalf of the opposition to support the Prime Minister's words. We have been saddened this morning by reports of at least 19 people having been killed at the national museum in Tunisia and many more wounded. I am sure we all felt when we saw the footage that we were seeing evil abroad again—innocents murdered, tourists and citizens killed, and scared people seeking security. Our thoughts and sympathies are with the fledgling democracy of Tunisia and its citizens and, of course, the families and friends of those who have lost their lives, many of them international tourists. It is an act of murder designed to shake the foundations of a new democracy. But I understand that the members of the Tunisian parliament, locked down in their country's parliament building as reports of the attack broke, refused to cower in fear; instead, they sang their national anthem in defiance. Our parliament is reminded of their strength and we stand with them in democratic solidarity.

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