Senate debates

Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Committees

Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee; Reference

6:49 pm

Photo of Mehreen FaruqiMehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I had no intention of speaking on this disgraceful and farcical motion, but, unfortunately, I was here at the time Senator Hanson made her speech. And I'm really sorry that Senator Cox had to listen to that speech as well, because I haven't heard such incomprehensible drivel in a long time. On top of that, it was dripping in white supremacy, colonisation and racism.

In some parallel universe, or maybe the dream world—or perhaps, more aptly, the nightmare world—that One Nation live in, they seem to think that they are calling out racism. It would be laughable if it weren't such a serious issue. Here's the truth: no matter where we are in this country, we are on stolen land; sovereignty was never ceded; this is, always was and always will be Aboriginal land. So deal with it, Senator Hanson.

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