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

I don't know if you want me to deal with this, because you've ruled on the point of order already, President, but I've been accused by the senator of saying something that was incorrect. When I spoke about an attack on the bases, I thought I heard you say, 'It's a base.' Now, if that's—

An honourable senator interjecting

Then it must have been another one of the Greens, because it was one of you. It was not one of us and it was not one of them. My point is you have to be consistent, and the problem for the Australian Greens is they have one narrative. They simply want to weaponise a narrative and campaign around being against the United States but they're not prepared to stand up to an authoritarian brutal regime which has killed its own people in order to stay in power. You don't hear the Greens political party talking about Iran, even though their own members have spoken about this. Publicly, former Greens members—