The Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi has been sanctioned after the upper house agreed her decision to protest the governor general’s address to parliament by raising a Gaza protest sign was “utterly disrespectful”.
Faruqi held up the sign urging sanctions against Israel while the governor general, Sam Mostyn, addressed parliament on Tuesday. As Anthony Albanese left the upper house chamber, Faruqi asked: “Prime minister, Gaza is starving, will you sanction Israel?”
