Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Chandler. All I can do is repeat my previous answer, which is that, in making its decision about terrorist listings, the Albanese government relies on the advice of our security agencies. But it is very well understood under this government, as it was under the previous government, that terrorist listings are not applied to state actors such as the IRGC. The Albanese government has no time whatsoever for the IRGC. That is why we have imposed sanctions on 63 IRGC linked individuals and 56 linked entities. We are following the same process as applied under the former government, and they never seemed to have a problem when they were in government.