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

The IRGC has been a disruptive and malign actor for a very long time in many countries, including when Senator Cash and others were in government. I would make the point that no actions were taken under the previous government for such a listing, despite, as I heard this morning, Mr Hastie recommending so. So I would just make, again, the same point. We took, prior to this action, stronger action against Iran than any previous Australian government. But what we have seen is something really unprecedented, which is a foreign actor orchestrating violence in Australia on Australian soil, against Australians. That is why we took the action we've taken.