Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. Israel's government is the most far right and extremist in the nation's history. Two of its most senior ministers, Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, are proud and open racists and bigots. Finance Minister Smotrich has said:

There is no such thing as Palestinians because there is no such thing as a Palestinian people.

He has called for a Palestinian town to be wiped out. He is also a proud, open homophobe. National Security Minister Ben-Gvir has attended so-called 'beast parades' against gay pride, at which individual religious activists lead goats and donkeys through the streets and hoist banners calling queer people 'impure'. He has also pledged to crush Palestinians 'one by one'. When will the foreign minister issue a boycott of any Australian government representative meeting with these two individuals?