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

I seek to make a personal explanation.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Do you claim to be misrepresented?

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

Yes, Speaker—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You may proceed.

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

by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition earlier in question time. This Prime Minister is so desperate to detract and distract from Labor's complicity and backing of the invasion that is taking place at the moment that they will come in here and make spurious allegations—

Government members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Members on my right!

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

against Greens members of parliament that need to be corrected.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Australian Greens will just pause.

The member for Fisher knows better than that. Members on my right, I can barely hear a word that is being said. If anyone interjects on my right during this period, they'll be ejected immediately. I want to hear from the Deputy Leader of the House.

Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The standing orders in Practice in relation to personal explanations are clear. The member needs to explain where he has been misrepresented. He immediately launched into an attack on the Prime Minister. I ask that he be brought back to pointing out where he has been misrepresented.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'll just allow the leader to continue so he can explain to the House where he was misrepresented and how he was misrepresented—not whether he liked being misrepresented or not. I hope that's clear. The Leader of the Australian Greens has the call.

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

In a desperate attempt to distract from Labor's backing of the invasion of Gaza, the Prime Minister made a number of representations—

Government members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Members on my right!

Order! The member for Canberra will leave the chamber under standing order 94(a). There are to be no more interjections.

The member for Canberra then left the chamber.

The member for Melbourne needs to explain exactly where—

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

There were misrepresentations about myself and Greens MPs in this parliament that need to be corrected. We have been crystal clear that the Greens, as a party of peace and nonviolence, support protest that is peaceful—

Honourable members interjecting—

And we have made it crystal clear, including on the record, that that should be the case. But instead—

Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You've been doing this for months—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Attorney-General will leave the chamber under 94(a)! No-one is to interject while I'm hearing this!

The member for Isaacs then left the chamber.

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

Instead, the Prime Minister, backed up by the Leader of the Opposition, came in here and made wide-ranging sprays attempting to connect the peaceful protests of people who are seeking to make their views about Labor's complicity with this genocide heard with the actions of other people, including here in this place.

Let us be absolutely crystal clear—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Griffith on a point of order and then the member for Wannon.

Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This is a matter in relation to the standing orders, Mr Speaker. A member of the Labor Party there, I'm not actually sure of his title, made a reflection on the Leader of the Australian Greens and I'd like him to come back in and withdraw.

Opposition members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Members on my left! I didn't hear that—

Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It was the member for Solomon.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Well, I shall deal with the member of Solomon separately to this issue. I didn't hear what was said, so I can't take action on that matter. The member for Wannon on a point of order.

Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, a point of order: the leader of the Greens has been asked to go to where he has been misrepresented, and he is not going there. He continues to defy your ruling that he should, and I think the House is not being advanced by the leader of the Greens' conduct.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm going to give the leader of the Greens one more chance to explain exactly where he has been misrepresented.

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

Mr Speaker, I've made it clear that the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition made a number of severe and direct misrepresentations about actions that are taking place outside this place, when we have been crystal clear on the record about our approach to how people should exercise protests. Instead, a number of severe misrepresentations were made. Why? Because they're attempting to distract from their complicity. And that's why I seek leave to move that so much of standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the member for Melbourne from moving the following motion:

That this House:

(1) notes:

(a) The state of Israel has signed a $3 billion contract with the United States for a further 25 F-35 fighter aircraft;

(b) Australia plays a significant role in the F-35 fighter aircraft global supply chain with a range of components manufactured here in Australia, including the sole manufacturing of F-35 fighter aircraft's uplock actuator system, which allows the F-35 to drop its payload; and

(c) the F-35 fighter aircraft are being used to bomb the people of Gaza; and

(2) calls on the Government to immediately end all direct and indirect trade of military equipment with the State of Israel, including the provision of critical components of the F-35 fighter jet supply chain.

It is critical that we debate this motion now, because Labor is attempting to do anything to distract from their complicity in the unfolding genocide. A—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Resume your seat—

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

I'm happy to stand up—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Resume your seat! The Deputy Leader of the House?

Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, the member had the right to issue a personal explanation, so I now move:

That the member no longer be heard.

A division having been called and the bells being/having been rung—

Government members interjecting—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Australian Greens will cease interjecting.

Government members interjecting—

The Leader of the Australian Greens is now warned, and members on my right will remain silent during the division.

The question is that the Leader of the Australian Greens no longer be heard.

Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I second this motion. This government is engaging in arms trading with the state of Israel as it carries out a genocide in Gaza. This government needs to—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member will resume his seat. The Deputy Leader of the House?

Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Greens had the opportunity for a personal explanation, so I now move that the member no longer be heard.

A division having been called and the bells being rung—

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order. The member for Griffith and the Minister for Pacific Island Affairs are going to cease their conversation.

Honourable members interjecting—

Order the member for Griffiths, just cool it.

The member for Griffiths is now warned. Anyone sitting in that corner can also show restraint as well.

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

A point of order, the minister made an unparliamentary remark, and I ask you to ask him to withdraw.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The minister isn't sitting in his correct seat, so that's highly disorderly if he was interjecting during a division. To assist the House, I will ask him to withdraw. I don't know what was said, I didn't hear it. The question before the House is that the member no longer be heard.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The days of these wedge motions being put to the parliament and going to a vote end now. The harm that is being done is beyond belief. To be telling people, when there is a government calling for ceasefire, that somehow it is calling for conflict is deliberate misinformation. I don't see why misinformation coming from the Left is somehow noble when misinformation coming from the Right is so wrong. People in our electorates genuinely have real fear of what is happening. For them, it is not a political game.

I put this one point: when the resolution was put on a suspension of standing orders from the Greens political party last time, it was a procedural motion. The question of recognition was never before this parliament, and yet the Greens chose to message something to Australia and to the world that was inaccurate. And they got headlines around the world that hurt the Palestinian cause but helped the Greens harvest votes. What sort of party, on an issue like that, makes a decision to harvest their own votes? I move:

That the debate be adjourned.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the debate be adjourned.

A division having been called and the bells having been rung—

As there are fewer than five members on the side for the noes in this division, I declare the question resolved in the affirmative in accordance with standing order 127. The names of those members who are in the minority will be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.

Question agreed to.

Before I call the member for Warringah, I will ask the member for Solomon to assist the House and withdraw what he said earlier.

Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm happy to withdraw.