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

Mr President, this is everything that's wrong with this place. This has been a disgrace, a shambles, and you should be ashamed of yourselves, both of you. Those contributions we just heard from both the Liberal and Labor parties didn't even mention the word 'refugees'. We have been, for the last two hours, trying to get those desperate people off Nauru, people who are being tortured and who, as a result of that torture, have serious mental health issues and need psychiatric assessment here in Australia, and we are denying it. We are denying innocent people who are being tortured at the hands of the Liberal government access to medical treatment. It is a disgrace. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourselves. This is a stain on the Australian nation. We had an opportunity to come together and to actually do something decent for innocent people, to show a bit of humanity, and what have you done? You've played politics. (Time expired)