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Burke says Lidia Thorpe’s comments about burning down parliament house opposite of what’s needed
Tony Burke responded this morning to senator Lidia Thorpe’s remarks yesterday that she would “burn down parliament house to make a point” if needed at a pro-Palestine rally yesterday.
The concept of wanting to inflame, push the temperature up, is not what anyone should be doing, least of all a member of parliament. I’m not going to respond to that by increasing the heat in the opposite direction.
I really think it’s a time for just turning the temperature down because there are two things, and we’ve got a chance of getting both. There are two things that Australians have been wanting. They’ve been wanting the killing to end, and they’ve been wanting to make sure that the conflict’s not brought here. We might be looking right now at the chance for the killing to end. So, let’s also try to calm things down here.
There’s been many false starts, but I can’t remember a time where there has been a greater level of hope than there is right now.
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