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| Australian House Debates Relationship With United States | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 15 2017, 09:33 PM (11 Views) | |
| Webster | Oct 15 2017, 09:33 PM Post #1 |
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(The Guardian) House debates Australia's relationship with the United States --Labor MP Ed Husic has delivered a speech on the motion regarding Australia and its key ally the United States of America. The House spent 50 minutes discussing the relationship. But Husic, who said he has visited the States every year since 2005, has had an epiphany of sorts, in the wake of the travel ban Donald Trump has been working so hard for since his election. Donald J Trump is calling for a total and complete shut down on Muslims entering the United States until that country representatives can figure out what is going on. I can’t believe that this is where this great country has got to. And then it exercises that ban. And it shuts out people on the basis of faith. I visited the country in that point of time before the inauguration, friends saying to me that it is probably premature to think that it is not right to visit again sometime later. But I think it is wrong, that a nation that can promise so much on the basis of freedom can shut out people on the basis of faith, and do it that way. I think it’s wrong. And against what America stands for. I think of the words of Paul Keating, who says ‘that once they have pawned the crown, it is hard to reclaim the inheritance’, and he is right. What America is doing to itself and the way it is behaving, is so disappointing to so many of its friends. I can’t see myself going back to America while this is being maintained. I can not think of people like me and my faith, being taken out in front of their children in a line, queuing up to visit the States, just on the basis of faith. America, I think the world of you. But I can not, and people like me, can not be shamed by you. This is not the promise of the America we love. America is better than this.” -Read more: http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;adv=yes;orderBy=date-eFirst;page=0;query=Dataset%3Adailyp%20Title%3A%22Daily%20Program%22;rec=0;resCount=Default |
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