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

by leave—The Greens will not be supporting this postponement. We reiterate the comments of the government and the Labor Party. The quicker this bill is dealt with and consigned to the dustbin of history the better. There is no place to debate such racist, xenophobic, hate-filled bills in this parliament. In his short time in this parliament, we've seen Senator Anning treat it as though it is some sort of opportunity to sprout hatred, racism and, indeed, white supremacy. He has caused harm and offence to the Muslim community, to the Jewish community, and today seeks to extend that harm to anyone who doesn't come from an Anglo-European background. I look at my team and I think of the message that you have just sent to the members of my team and the contempt and disrespect that you have shown them and indeed many millions of Australians right around the country. We rarely come together as a parliament to condemn the actions of a senator but we abhor this race to the bottom that we seem to be engaged in. We simply reiterate the views of the government and the Labor Party, and the Greens now, who stand as one to make a very clear statement—that legislation of this nature has no place in a modern, multicultural nation like Australia.