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

My question is for the minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Brandis. We are currently on the precipice of a major nuclear conflict involving two dangerous and paranoid leaders, which has led some commentators to describe this as a more dangerous situation than the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Yet the Prime Minister has said that Australia is joined at the hip to one of these madmen. Minister, isn't it time for Australia to surgically remove this growth on our hip so that Australia doesn't blindly follow the US into yet another senseless conflict but instead plays a more constructive role in helping to resolve conflict and to bring peace to the world?