{"id":110436,"date":"2025-09-01T08:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110436\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:53:09","slug":"anti-immigration-protests-across-australia-dezi-freeman-search-continues-hundreds-dead-after-afghanistan-earthquake-israel-claims-death-of-hamas-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/110436\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-immigration protests across Australia; Dezi Freeman search continues; hundreds dead after Afghanistan earthquake; Israel claims death of Hamas spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Debate in the Senate over a motion condemning yesterday\u2019s anti-immigration rallies in Australia\u2019s capital cities turned ugly this afternoon, as the Greens, Labor and the Coalition took swings at each other.<\/p>\n

The motion, moved by Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi, condemned \u201cthe racist, white supremacist, and anti-immigrant rallies held over the weekend and \u2026 the support of and attendance at the rallies by MPs\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Senator Mehreen Faruqi.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n

During the introduction of her motion, Faruqi described One Nation senators as \u201cmerchants of hate \u2026 who have nothing to offer but their racism and white supremacy\u201d.<\/p>\n

An amendment from the Coalition focused on the commitment to \u201cfree speech and lawful assembly\u201d, and went further than others to condemn rallies by \u201cpro-Iranian government extremists and those supporting terrorist organisations\u201d \u2013 a barb directed at recent pro-Palestinian marches that featured Iranian, Hamas and Hezbollah iconography.<\/p>\n

During the debate, Greens senator David Shoebridge accused the Coalition of wanting \u201cto be in a position to platform neo-Nazis\u201d to divide Australians on race.<\/p>\n

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Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie shouted back: \u201cWho supported Australian Jews in your team? No one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shoebridge compared quotes by an unnamed neo-Nazi, and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke; the first of which was, \u201cWe need to send them back \u2013 no debate, no discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Burke\u2019s quote, which Shoebridge read out, was: \u201cAnyone who doesn\u2019t have a valid visa should leave the country.\u201d Burke\u2019s quote was from last week and referred to Australia\u2019s $400 million deal with Nauru that will allow the federal government to deport foreign-born criminals to the Pacific Island nation.<\/p>\n

Shoebridge\u2019s comparison of quotes tipped Finance Minister Katy Gallagher over the edge, prompting her to yell at the Greens senator: \u201cYou are an absolute disgrace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in the debate, McKenzie accused Faruqi of double standards by not condemning pro-Palestine protesters on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, after they displayed a poster of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khamenei holding a machinegun.<\/p>\n

McKenzie called out: \u201cWhere\u2019s your motion for that?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Debate in the Senate over a motion condemning yesterday\u2019s anti-immigration rallies in Australia\u2019s capital cities turned ugly this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-110436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}