Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The election of Donald Trump is a threat to Australia and the world. His attacks on human rights, democracy and climate action; the toxic relationship Mr Trump has with the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg; inviting Rupert Murdoch, the media billionaire, into the Oval Office to help him rule the world—this is scary stuff. It's terrifying, and it is not the type of politics that we want imported into Australia.

Australia is not America. We have a deep belief in democracy, in fairness. We have a deep belief in looking after one another and the fair go. But Mr Dutton, wanting to be Australia's prime minister, wants to import this Trumpian style politics right here at home. He wants to be the mini-Trump. Of course, Gina Rinehart, Australia's own obscenely wealthy billionaire, wants to help Mr Dutton do this too. There is no place in Australia for the type of nasty politics that we are seeing play out in Trump's America. The nasty, far-right, neo-Nazi fanboys that make up the inner circle of Trump have no place here and need to be stared down.