Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move the following motion:

That this House:

(1)

condemns the Member for Bendigo for:

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, on a point of order: to suit the convenience of the House, I can advise we will not be giving leave.

Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I get to read the motion first. I seek leave to move:

That this House:

(1)

condemns the Member for Bendigo for:

(a)

failing to understand the difference between Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, and Australia in 2009;

(b)

displaying a total lack of regard for the sensibilities of Jewish Australians and other minorities in Australia who were persecuted in both Germany and other conquered territories by Hitler’s war machine and found their home in our country after World War II;

(c)

finding a moral equivalence between the death camps of Reinhard Heydrich and the legitimate Parliamentary debate surrounding this Government’s budgetary policy;

(d)

being unable to comprehend the affront to Jewish Australians and others, who were the target of Hitler’s grotesque policies, in his own electorate of Bendigo; and

(e)

embarrassing the House through the senseless, base and tasteless attack on the Coalition; and

(2)

invites the Member for Bendigo to attend the House immediately and apologise to those he has offended, the Opposition in particular and all Members of the House.

Leave not granted.