Thursday, 30 November 2023

Community safety

Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (10:32): I also want to rise and speak to the appalling display, which was witnessed overnight, by those protesters that Mr Davis just referred to. Families and friends of Israeli hostages and those murdered and terrorised in the 7 October Hamas attacks were subjected the most appalling display by protesters who blocked them from getting to their hotel last night. Again Melbourne is making world news for all the wrong reasons, and this display, where it was deliberate intimidation by these protesters of these family members and friends of those people who were taken hostage or murdered in the 7 October terrorist attacks, was just horrific. Those people were in the Parliament yesterday. They were telling their accounts and they were pleading, ‘Bring our hostages, bring our loved ones, home.’ It beggars belief that people would do that to these families and friends last night in Melbourne, in Victoria, in Australia. I think it is a terrible display of what is going on. It is divisive and unnecessary, and it must stop. I know there are others in this chamber, like Mr Batchelor, who also agree with that.