Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention) Share this | Hansard source

The fact that the person who has stood next to a poster that said 'Put Israel in the bin' was also the person who stood up and spoke on behalf of an antisemitic motion in support of Jewish Australians is an insult and a slap in the face to everyone of any decent mind—an absolute slap in the face. And then we hear, 'We must not allow racism, but what we will allow is people to support terrorist groups that like to kill Jews.' That's what universities are allowing to occur. That is what is happening to the young minds of our nation—the young minds who should be put into a situation where they are encouraged to question and grow and learn. Part of that should be that they can actually intellectually understand, when they say 'From the river to the sea', which river and which sea, because I bet most of those children who are out there protesting wouldn't know which river and which sea. They are indoctrinated. It's like a cult.

Families are having to deal with these universities putting this rubbish in their children's heads, turning them into activists, not academics. These universities are turning students into activists, not people who will contribute to our community. They'll spend a life in perpetual university politics and filled with hatred. It must be exhausting for them all to hate everybody so much. Live and let live, people. Why do you just want to hate on the Jews all the time? And the Jewish community knows it. The Holocaust didn't start with the gas chambers; it started with the sort of behaviour we're now seeing on the streets of Sydney, in Dover Heights, in Maroubra and in Dural. Dural is all acreage. It's like semi-rural farmland. It's insanity. How can the Labor government sit there and say, 'Nothing to see here, don't worry; we'll do a half-baked little inquiry'? You can't even get a witness to acknowledge that calling for the death of Israel in 2025 is antisemitism. What is wrong? This is why there must be a judicial inquiry. This is a no-brainer. What is happening in this country has to be stopped, and it has to be stopped before people are indoctrinated into this hatred.

These vice-chancellors are on their million-dollar-plus packages, yet they're allowing this kind of hate to fester. I hope some of them, when they move out of their homes, try to move back to some of the suburbs where this is occurring and can witness it for themselves rather than in the cloistered halls of universities where they hide and fester in this hatred and where they hide and support the terror organisations through their inaction. It is appalling. It is shameful, and I call on the decent members of the Labor Party to— (Time expired)