(Source: Australian Greens) Tonight's debate takes place in the shadow of violent attacks on innocent people all over the world. We grieve with those families and friends who lost loved ones in the horrifying attacks on the people of Paris nearly two weeks ago. 130 people lost their lives, 368 people were injured. We offer our condolences for the families of those 43 people who lost their lives in twin bombings in a busy residential and commercial district in Beirut, Lebanon. To the 27 who died when gunmen opened fire at the Radisson Hotel in Bamako in Mali. To the 34 innocent people dead at a farmers market bombed in Yola, Nigeria. For the 224 innocent victims of the bombing of Russian...
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