Thursday, 14 November 2024

 Sarah MANSFIELD (Western Victoria) (10:03): 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 that this house ‘stands with Israel’, the following have occurred:

(a) Gaza reported its first case of the polio virus in approximately 25 years;

(b) the World Health Organization worked swiftly to provide many children across Gaza with their first dose of the nOPV2 vaccine;

(c) intense bombardments in October forced the postponement of the vaccination campaign;

(d) 198,270 children across northern Gaza are at risk of missing the final and necessary phase of their polio vaccine program;

(2)   acknowledges that the polio virus is a serious illness that can spread rapidly and cause paralysis; 

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

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

(5)   calls on Labor to take action including severing military trade relationships with the state of Israel.

Leave refused.