Senate debates

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Questions without Notice

Middle East

2:03 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

What I would say to Senator Cash is: please refer to my previous answer and the multiple answers I have given over the last years, since this conflict began. Really, people should understand in this place just how out of touch the coalition is on this. They don't even support a ceasefire, which the whole world, including President Trump, supports. You do not even support a ceasefire. That is how extreme the position of the coalition is with this person as shadow foreign minister. She does not even support a ceasefire that President Trump himself supports. That says something about the extent to which your position is divorced from the reality of what is happening on the ground, what is happening for people in the Middle East, and what is happening to the women and children of Gaza, who are—

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