Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

This morning, I received an email from a constituent who was born into the Islamic regime in Iran. Her parents were Muslim yet converted to Christianity, and they were successful in fleeing Iran and moving to Australia. These are her words, based on her lived experience and that of her family:

My name is Janet Shay. I'm an Iranian-Australian.

Yesterday, on the 1st March 2026, the Leader of the Islamic Government of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed.

The Iranian people have waited 47 years for this moment.

This is a historical and joyful time for Iranians and for the world.

Although I am joyful for them, and hopeful that soon I may visit my family & the graves of my loved one in Iran, I am deeply concerned for us here in Australia.

I'll say that again: she is 'deeply concerned for us here in Australia'. She continues:

In 2025 Prime Minister Albanese declared Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (the IRGC) a terrorist organisation. Thank you Prime Minister.

However, declaring a group a terrorist organisation means very little if the ideology that drives that group continues to be taught and defended on Australian soil without consequence.

What does our government intend do about those living among us who actively promote and defend the same ideology that endorses killing of apostates, abusing women and the sexual violation of children.

On the 14th of December 2025 there was an attack on Bondi: on Australian soil, against Australians. The Prime Minister said sorry. Ok.

But sorry is not honesty about what we are dealing with. An ideology cannot be called terrorist overseas but acceptable when it's in our own country.

See, the people protesting in Iran are not afraid of being politically incorrect, to NAME what they endured under Islam. They are not going to be gaslit into calling it a misinterpretation.

So I'll follow in their footsteps and speak plainly.

There are two types of Muslims: a Good Muslim & a True Muslim. I know Good Muslims. They are kind, generous and they want exactly what the rest of us want:

safety, family, a future, a decent life. But they are good Muslims because they do not follow all that Islam actually instructs them to do. That is why they are good Muslims.

The Islamic government of Iran, the IRGC, Hamas, al-Qaeda, ISIS, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Houthis: these are not people who went rogue away from their faith.

These people read their Quran and said: we will do exactly as our holy leader instructs. By their own scripture's measure, they are the True Muslims.

The good Muslim and the true Muslim are two different people.

The word "Islamophobia" is used in Australia to shut down the freedom to have opposing conversations about the religion of Islam.

A phobia is an irrational fear—