Over in the senate, the government and opposition are joining together to chastise Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi after she held up a sign in the senate yesterday that said

“Gaza is starving. Words won’t feed them. Sanction Israel.”

After Anthony Albanese left the senate yesterday after his address, Faruqi called out:

“Prime minister, Gaza is starving, will you sanction Israel?”

Both Michaelia Cash and Penny Wong are policing Faruqi for the protest, and are seeking to ban her from any delegation for her time in the parliament, as well as apologise to the senate, the prime minister and the Governor-general.

Larissa Waters is now defending Faruqi.