Overview
- Senate leader Penny Wong’s motion passed 50-11 with Labor and the Coalition voting in favor and the Greens plus independent Fatima Payman opposing.
- Faruqi held a sign reading “Gaza is starving. Words won’t feed them. Sanction Israel” as Governor-General Sam Mostyn addressed the upper house.
- The motion requires Faruqi to apologise for her “unparliamentary conduct” and prohibits her from representing the Senate on official delegations during this term.
- Faruqi accused colleagues of standing on the “wrong side of history” over Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and vowed to continue her advocacy within parliament.
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Coalition leaders condemned in-chamber demonstrations as disrespectful to parliamentary procedures and defended the motion as necessary discipline.