Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'm asked about questions that have been asked in parliament over the last two weeks, but in fact the questions didn't begin over the last two weeks; they began from last Wednesday. They began from the moment at which our Olympians came home and the Leader of the Opposition did an interview on Sky News in which he declared that no-one should be allowed in from Gaza, even though the fact is that the border from Gaza had been closed for months and there had been no response and no issues raised by those opposite while people were actually coming in. They waited till people weren't coming in and the border was closed.

So there the Leader of the Opposition was, at the moment of the Olympians coming home, which should have been a moment of national unity. He chose division once again. The Australian scarf stayed on, but the mask of this divisive Leader of the Opposition came off, and he's still going. On Monday he asked about terrorist visas; on Tuesday, after being called out for being so angry and for not focusing on the cost of living, he moved that the Treasurer be no longer heard; and yesterday he gagged himself by not asking a single question in question time but having others ask questions which were fed up to them, including questions like the ones today which seemed to suggest somehow that I'm responsible for who's in Qatar. I'll tell you who's in Qatar who I wouldn't allow in Qatar: that's the Hamas leadership. I would not allow them in Australia. That is what I would do.

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