Mehreen Faruqi

But two days later from the following, from the following Monday, just hit my mic there [laughs].

Um, two days later, the Greens had an unprecedented ballot for the leadership, and going for the position included Sarah Hanson-Young, been a Greens leader, a, a Greens, um, senator since 2008, former Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi, and David Shoebridge, where 11 Green members voted in a party room in Sydney.

Senator Hanson-Young, she was eliminated in the first round of voting, and in the following round, Senator David Shoebridge ultimately came out on top with seven votes against Faruqi's four votes.

Faruqi said that she was disappointed with the ballot result, and rightly so.

I don't know.

I don't, I don't know a whole lot about, uh, David Shoebridge.

I know that, uh, yeah, Mehreen Faruqi and, uh, Sarah Hanson-Young.

Sarah Hanson-Young.

Uh, that was Warren Pickering, head of One Nation there in Victoria.

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I mentioned earlier, "From the river to the sea," Queensland has banned the phrase.

It is a repulsive slogan because arguably it means at the very minimum an ethnic cleansing of Jews from the land of Israel, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, and at worst, arguably, a full-scale genocide of Jews.

We will not stop until Palestine is free from the river to the sea.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

That was, of course, failed Greens wannabe leader, Senator Mehreen Faruqi.

She, of course, would insist that in her use of that phrase, it has nothing to do with genocide.

Take us through it.

Well, so, uh, in terms of the leadership, it was between himself, a New South- fellow New South Wales senator, I should say, Mehreen Faruqi, and South Australian senator, Sarah, um, Hanson-Young.

Obviously, we've got D- uh, David Shoebridge won and, and definitely from speaking to people within the party before the vote, uh, most people were expecting him to win.

Sarah Hanson-Young has tried to go for the leadership a few times, and she's lost.

Mehreen Faruqi, it's, I guess, a similar story.

The interesting thing to note about this is we obviously saw Mehreen Faruqi come out and say that, uh, the vote should have been done through a wider membership vote.

So you h- you would have all the members in the Greens, the rank and file, so to speak, they would all vote on the leadership.

There apparently wasn't enough time this time, and that will happen, um, sort of next time around.

... claim English as your first language.

Yes, I can just hear Mehreen now over the loudspeaker, "We need a white Anglo-Saxon male cleaner now in aisle five." Yes, indeed, thinking about it, the last place I would ever go to shop for my greens would be with the Greens.

That truly would be a world gone mad.

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I mean, it's a...

Can you wrap your head around that? And the audacity, James, of these people to come here and benefit from us, right? And then to turn around and slap us all in the face, and Mehreen Faruqi is one of them, right? You can add her in all of this.

To come here and just talk about how this parliament is dripping in racism.

Uh, hello, where have you come from?

Mm-hmm.

Look, you were elected when there were two kind of front runners, it seemed, in Sarah Hanson-Young and Mehreen Faruqi, um, both of which actually contested against Larissa Waters initially when Larissa Waters won the leadership.

Now, there have been reports of pretty deep divisions within the Greens at the moment.

Do you care to comment?

Mm.

Now, some of the discourse I've seen and that has been reported in the media is questions around a male being elected to the role when two females were opposing.

Um, the other one that I saw, and this was happening in the lead up as well, but also from specifically Mehreen Faruqi in the wake of the vote, was that the broader Greens membership should've been given the right to vote on who the leader was.

We know that it was just the 10 senators and one lower house member that got to decide, uh, so 11 people all up.