1. In Aug 2020 MP @ShoebridgeMLC tabled a motion in New South Wales Parliament on the Citizenship Amendment Act that discriminates on the basis of religion and asked the government to renegotiate trade agreement with India to include human rights clause.
2. In her speech in the Australian Federal Parliament Senator @janet_rice asked the @AusHCIndia resign after he visited the headquarters of RSS, whom she described as a “#Fascist organisation that openly admits admiration for Adolf Hitler”.
3. Also in the Federal Parliament, Senator @NickMcKim called Adani's Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland a triple-bottom-line dud .. ”.....proposed by a company which has an appalling track record, particularly socially and environmentally.”
4. India’s crackdown on dissent and the imposition of ‘harsh and discriminatory measures in Kashmir’, featured prominently in a speech on Human Rights, in the Australian Federal Parliament, by Senator @larissawaters on 3 September 2020.
5. Speaking in the Victorian Parliament, MP @SamanthaRatnam urged the government to review its India strategy “in the context of Indian Government’s recent treatment of farmers and religious minorities”
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