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

Thank you very much and, if I may while I'm on my feet, welcome to our friends from Vietnam. You're very welcome in Australia. We're not always like this—well, actually, in question time we are!—but we value very much the friendship with your country.

Senator Faruqi, I think the position of the Labor Party is well known on this, and our support for a republic is well known. We also have been very clear that that is not something that is a first-order priority for the government in this term. I refer you to the Prime Minister's comments.