Labor MP Linda Burney has also spoken on the motion and she is one of the only ones to take aim at Peter Dutton and the Coalition for politicising the issue:

…Leadership is understanding that these anti-Semitic Acts and acts of racism divide people. They hurt people. They stay with you. And let me tell you, I can speak from personal experience about that.

So instead of trying to make this a political issue, instead of trying to paint one side one way and one side the other, why don’t we show the Australian community an act of bipartisanship, an act of not accepting what’s been going on, an act that will provide to the Australian people that we are one in rejecting racism, in rejecting anti-Semitism and in rejecting hate in this country that is required by this parliament, not what we are seeing now, where there is the attempt to sow division here.

How can the Australian people have any faith in its political leadership? We cannot come together on this one. I urge everyone to do it. I am proud to be part of the government who has made many, many moves and done many things to support social cohesion in this country, to call out anti-Semitism as absolutely unacceptable. I’m proud of that

...And you cannot rewrite history and you cannot rewrite the truth. Politicising this issue is reprehensible. It’s unacceptable. It is not a display of leadership to the Australian community