Thursday, 20 June 2024

Motions

Middle East conflict

Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (10:06): 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) teachers and school staff have been organising in their workplaces and rallying on the streets to call on the Labor government to end their support of Israeli violence against the Palestinian people in Gaza;

(b) students and young people have rallied and encamped in universities and schools;

(c) people of all ages and from all backgrounds have continued to rally in the streets of Melbourne, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza;

(2) calls on the Victorian government to end its relationship with the Israeli defence ministry and the weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems.

Leave refused.