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

I refer to my earlier answer, which is that we have actually taken stronger action than any government that the coalition was part of over the last nine years. The IRGC was already sanctioned as a whole in 2010, I think, by a former Labor government. You have heard me in this place, including in response to your questions, be very clear about our view on foreign interference. What we have seen is really unprecedented. We have seen a foreign entity seeking to orchestrate violence in our country on our soil against Australian citizens and Australian premises. This calls for the unprecedented action we have taken, which is the first expulsion, in the postwar era, of an ambassador.