Senate debates

Thursday, 21 March 2024

Bills

Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill (No. 2) 2023; Second Reading

1:25 pm

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

Sorry. I withdraw. The facts of the matter do not align with the reality, because here is the reality. Your government has greenlit hundreds of export permits to the State of Israel—weapons export permits—including hundreds of thousands in the month of October 2023. Let us go through the list of Australian manufacturers supplying arms to Israel: Currawong Engineering, of Tasmania, supplying engines for Israeli drones; Bisalloy of Queensland, supplying armour for Israeli inventory and fighting vehicles; Varley Australia, providing systems which guide Israeli rockets to their targets; and Rosebank Engineering, the only company in the world that manufactures the mechanism for the F-35 fighter jet which enables it to open its bomb bay doors.

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