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

My question is to the Minister for Multicultural Affairs. 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 minister act to prevent this payment being made?

Anne Aly (Cowan, Australian Labor Party, Minister for International Development) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member opposite for his question. As the Treasurer said, we take very seriously issues where there is funding for activities or for communities. We take very seriously the use of taxpayer money to fund those activities in those communities. When we do that, we do that with an expectation—an expectation that those activities and those communities will abide by the law and within the expectations and the standards which Australian taxpayers expect in the use of their money. This case is no different. So I can assure those opposite that I am doing everything possible to look into this matter, and I will have more to say on it shortly.