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

The Greens absolutely welcome the Nobel Peace Ride riders to Canberra. I look forward to meeting with them hopefully later today. The former Prime Minister of the country may not have had the good grace to congratulate them on this remarkable achievement, but let me say on behalf of the Australian Greens: a huge congratulations to ICAN, a small group of committed activists based in Melbourne who came together and achieved remarkable things. Thank you for all of your hard work. Thank you to those people right across civil society who are working to rid the world once and for all of nuclear weapons. Of course, the best way to say thank you to those people is to unequivocally support Australia signing and ratifying the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty. After all, the whole point of the ride is for this place to support that treaty. We support you in your endeavours, and we urge the government and the Labor Party to do the same.

Question agreed to.