Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said of the attack on the Adass synagogue in Melbourne:

Unfortunately, it is impossible to separate this reprehensible act from the extreme anti-Israeli position of the Labor government in Australia.

Israel's deputy foreign minister, Sharren Haskel, recently made a public statement regarding her meeting with Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus. She said:

I expressed to him my disappointment with the shift in then Australian government's attitude towards Israel.

I emphasised our deep concern regarding the shocking rise in antisemitism in Australia and the clearly ineffectual response from the Australian government … There is no doubt this has been caused in part by the Australian government's ongoing campaign against Israel.

Minister, when will you acknowledge that the antisemitism crisis in Australia has been fuelled by the Albanese government's consistent actions against Israel on the world stage?