Jenny Ware (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to ask: why are left-leaning parliamentarians in Labor and the Greens so hypocritical about the plight of women? Let me be clear: they have had plenty to say in this place and the other about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as it is affecting Palestinian women, yet they are silent about Israeli women who were raped to death on 7 October last year. They are silent about the 101 hostages, including five young women, still being held in underground tunnels by Hamas, a recognised terrorist organisation. I have heard no condemnation of the women-hating regime of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where women now are prohibited from speaking, praying and singing in public; where young girls are banned from education, married off as teenagers to elderly men, and denied employment as well as the freedom to dress as they please.

There has been silence from that side about the fate of the young Iranian woman Ahoo Daryaei, who was last seen walking around the campus grounds of an Iranian university dressed only in underwear. She walked slowly, her actions and steps deliberate and courageous in the face of the abhorrent, misogynistic, violent Iranian regime, where sharia law is the law of the land—a regime supported by the Albanese government and the United Nations. This is a government that proudly sprukes a record number of female parliamentarians. Where are those strong female voices? Where are the— (Time expired)