Senate debates

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

Motions

President of the United States

4:23 pm

Photo of Richard Di NataleRichard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

What a surprise that this parliament should be avoiding the responsibility that it has to start recognising that if we continue on the path that we are on, hitching our wagon to a dangerous and unhinged president, we risk dragging this nation into war. What is reassuring to me, though, is that faced with the glaring lack of leadership from our Prime Minister and indeed from this parliament we are seeing people organise, mobilise and resist right around the streets. We have seen people stand up to this 21st-century demagogue—five million women marching in the streets, taxi drivers, people flocking to airports to protest.

Honourable senators interjecting—

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