Statement on Indulgence - Terror attacks around the world (Department of the Prime Minister and ...

(Source: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet - Australian Government) Thank you, Mr Speaker. I seek the indulgence of the House to make a statement on the recent terrorist attacks around the world. And I acknowledge the presence in the House of the Ambassador of France, His Excellency Mr Christophe Lecourtier. Late on the afternoon of Friday, 13 November, Paris, the city of light, was assaulted by godless ISIL murderers who blasphemously claimed to be killing in the name God, who claimed to be killing in the name of Islam, but defame and blasphemed Islam itself. One hundred and thirty citizens of France and eighteen other countries were brutally murdered. Many more were injured,...