Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has faced a disciplinary motion in the Australian senate after she held a sign that read: “Gaza is starving. Words won’t feed them. Sanction Israel,” during the governor-general’s address on the first day of the 48th parliament.
Foreign Minister and Labor’s Senate Leader Penny Wong moved the motion against Faruqi, accusing her of protesting for attention, saying: “Senator Faruqi wanted it to be about her, presumably in her campaign for the leadership of the Greens.”
“The reality is, this is a very difficult conflict,” Wong added, referring to the Hamas-Israel war. “I have often spoken in this place about the need for all of us to be responsible about how we deal with it here.”
Faruqi hit back at Wong, saying she “will not back down from this call because Palestinians are being murdered, starved and displaced”.
“Labor and the Coalition in this chamber wants to avoid the truth…Instead of sanctioning me, maybe you should think about sanctioning Israel,” Faruqi added.
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