Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

He's attacked those who've been the victims of the climate crisis with his unforgettable 'water lapping at your door' joke. The Leader of the Opposition falsely claimed that people in my home town of Melbourne were afraid to go out to dinner because of African gangs, and I can't begin to tell this parliament the anguish, the distress and the hurt that that caused people in my community—to hear someone who was aspiring to be Prime Minister telling falsehoods about what was happening in our home town, using fear, that then turned on the most vulnerable in our community who needed our support at a time of unity. He claimed that allowing Lebanese Muslims to immigrate was a mistake, and—

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