Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. The Albanese Labor government promised last May, in the member for Bruce's electorate, $670,000 to the TAHA association, who have been mourning the death of Iran's brutal dictator, Ayatollah Khamenei. Will the Treasurer act to prevent this payment being made?

Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This government has made it clear, and the Prime Minister and other ministers have made it clear, as do I, that we don't consider it appropriate to mourn the death of the Ayatollah. We have made our views about his brutal and oppressive regime very clear, repeatedly, in recent days and before that as well.

Henry Pike (Bowman, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

What are you going to do about it?

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Bowman is warned?

Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We take any breaches of the law very seriously. Our various agencies, the ATO, the charities commission and others, have the powers to revoke any of the concessional treatment that applies to organisations. When it comes to the specific case that you have raised, I know that my colleague Minister Aly has been working on this matter and is taking this matter very seriously. I don't want to front run her considerations, but I know that it's being taken seriously, and I suspect that the minister will have more to say about it in due course.