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‘This parliament drips now in racism’ says Faruqi

Deputy Greens leader, Mehreen Faruqi, stands up next to condemn Hanson, and accuses the whole chamber of allowing racism to fester inside and outside of parliament.

She says that when Hanson first pulled the same stunt in 2017, there were no senators of a Muslim background in the chamber – now there are two.

Finally, after three decades, after three decades of piling on hate and racism, on Muslims, on Asians, on people of colour, finally, at least some of us in this chamber want to hold Senator Hanson to account …
You just want to talk about respecting each other. Well, this is where respecting each other and just talking the talk has got us, this parliament drips now in racism, because for decades, for decades, politicians and both major parties can I say, let it happen.