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

I responded to this yesterday. I will say it again. Any Australian can apply for and, if they meet eligibility requirements, be issued an Australian passport, full stop. A passport can only be refused or cancelled on security grounds if a competent authority—that is, a security agency such as ASIO—requests it. As I have said repeatedly, no such request was made. No such requests were made.

I would just remind Senator Duniam of what he himself said in the really quite disastrous press conference that he and his new boss gave on these matters. He himself said:

This is a terribly complex situation. Anyone who suggests it's straightforward is lying …