Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I, and also on behalf of Senator Wong, move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes with concern reports of threats of violence towards health workers, health officials, premiers and elected officials in response to measures that have protected the lives and livelihoods of Australians throughout the COVID-19 pandemic;

(b) calls on all Australians to undertake protests peacefully, respectfully and not engage in conduct that threatens peaceful activity across our country;

(c) notes that extremism in all forms tears apart the social fabric of Australia, in particular across our multicultural communities;

(d) condemns without reservation or qualification all threats, acts and incitement of violence, including any expressed at recent protests and online;

(e) further condemns individuals and extremist groups which seek to promote or incite violence, disinformation, neo-Nazism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, fascism, communism, anarchism, racism and bigotry in our community;

(f) calls on all in public office to set an example by refraining from incitement of violence or threats of violence and the dissemination of disinformation;

(g) thanks all Australians who have accepted the health advice and worked together through the COVID-19 pandemic to keep each other safe, particularly the more than 19 million Australians who have already had at least one dose of a vaccination.