Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens will be supporting this motion, but I note that if the Greens had moved a motion on Myanmar we would not have been given leave for it as it would have been ruled to be an issue of complex foreign policy. It's rather hypocritical. However, the Rohingya people in both Myanmar and Bangladesh face extraordinary challenges in these difficult times. Their own government has attacked them and they face additional challenges in this pandemic, as are outlined in the motion. At the 2019 election the Greens called for an extra 50,000 humanitarian places a year. Instead, as shown in last night's budget, the Liberal government is planning to cut the humanitarian intake by $5,000. We need to do a lot more in our region, not less. We should be reaching 0.7 per cent of gross national product by 2030, but our aid is at its lowest level ever.

Question agreed to.