Wednesday, 19 June 2024

 Samantha RATNAM (Northern Metropolitan) (09:51): I move, by leave:

That this house:

(1)   notes that since the Legislative Council’s resolution on 17 October 2023 concerning Israel and Gaza, which stated this house ‘stands with Israel’ –

(a) over 100,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed, injured or are missing;

(b) a significant proportion of Gaza’s population is now facing a famine because of the state of Israel’s restrictions on the inflow of humanitarian aid, including supplies of food, water and medicine;

(c) 50,000 children in Gaza are requiring treatment for acute malnutrition resulting from the famine;

(2)   does not support the state of Israel’s continued invasion of Gaza;

(3)   supports calls for an immediate and permanent ceasefire; and

(4)   calls on the Victorian government to advocate to the Australian government that it ends its support for the state of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.

Leave refused.