Tuesday, 20 June 2023

North-Eastern Metropolitan Region

Nicholas McGOWAN (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (13:10): (253) Thank you, President, for allowing me to get away with that. It is much appreciated. My question is to Minister Brooks, and I ask him to join with me in sending our condolences and condemnation in respect to the massacre that occurred in Uganda. Members of this house may not be aware, but in my electorate there are very many new Australians and very many hail from many parts of Africa. If you did not catch the news, sadly last Friday a school was attacked in a small town on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in the order of 37 students were – yet again; in Africa we have seen this too often – macheted or burnt alive in their dormitories. It was horrific – nothing short of it – and I would like to know that our government is sending their condolences on and condemnation of these savage acts that we have seen quite enough of in our lifetime.