Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens will be supporting this motion but want to point out that a very similar motion, which I attempted to move in this place a month ago, was denied formality because it was covering an issue of complex foreign policy. This motion, similarly, is covering complex foreign policy but interestingly has not been denied formality. The Greens will be supporting this, but there was one significant difference between our motion and the one Senator Smith is moving today, and that was calling upon the government to accept gay and bisexual refugees from Chechnya given the persecution they are facing. We would have very much liked to have added that to this motion, and we call upon the government to accept that. But, regardless, we will be supporting this motion today.

Question agreed to.