Senate debates

Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Questions without Notice

National Security

2:03 pm

Photo of Claire ChandlerClaire Chandler (Tasmania, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The former home affairs minister Clare O'Neil publicly attributed a foreign interference attempt to the Islamic Republic of Iran regime in February 2023. That same month, the coalition offered bipartisan support to legislate, if necessary, to allow the government to list the IRGC as a terrorist organisation. Why didn't the Albanese government take us up on that offer at that time when the threat of the IRI regime was already well understood?

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