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

Thank you, Mr President. Today the world pauses to reflect on efforts everywhere to end discrimination and vilification on the basis of race, colour, ethnicity or national origin. Today in Australia we are proudly celebrating Harmony Day. We are the most successful, peaceful, multicultural nation in the world. Today Australians everywhere from all over the world are going to school together; they are working together; they are living together; they are loving each other—just like they do every day.

But today also a very small group of people within the Liberal Party are trying to attack the very fabric of our proud and peaceful multicultural nation. Our commitment to cultural diversity and to our way of life runs far too deep for that. Instead, we will work together on Ngunnawal land on what really matters. We understand that racism has no place in Australia, that it must be eliminated to protect our wonderfully diverse and harmonious society.

Question agreed to.