Senate debates

Tuesday, 24 March 2026

Questions without Notice

Middle East

3:23 pm

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

No, your outrage machine, actually. What you want is an outrage machine to campaign with. It doesn't suit you to talk about the thousands of people the regime has killed. It doesn't suit you to confirm that Australia has said we are only engaging in defensive action. It doesn't suit you to remember that there are tens of thousands of Australians that we are defending as a consequence of the deployment of ADF personnel in the Middle East. You just want to yell at me because these are inconvenient facts.

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