Senate debates

Wednesday, 13 September 2017

Bills

Yemen

5:05 pm

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

Oh, it's a complex one? So who determines what's complex? I'll take that interjection. Apparently, a complex foreign policy matter is a foreign policy matter that we don't agree with. That's a complex foreign policy matter—we don't agree with it, so we'll vote against it.

Let us go to what is at issue here. We welcome this being debated. We have huge concerns about the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. We support this motion, but we'd like it to go further. The government should stop pouring petrol on the fires in Yemen and it should end its military trade with Saudi Arabia. Only then will we see a difference in the humanitarian situation in Yemen.

Question agreed to.

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