Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Acting Deputy President, on the point of order, I can understand the sensitivity of the Greens but the standing orders of the Senate were never designed to deny the historical fact, and the historical fact is as Senator Boswell has set out. There is no doubt that the anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany in 1939 started off with the boycott of Jewish businesses, and it went further and further until the holocaust. For a point of order to be raised suggesting that somehow that can be airbrushed is simply unacceptable. That is the established history. People accept that that is what occurred in 1939 and, unfortunately, those who support these—