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

The phrase 'aid workers are the best of us' is one I have used on a number of occasions. It's one that I used when we, with 100 other countries—and I know you seek to dismiss that, but this is how you work for change: you build coalitions across countries. I know that's not your style. That's not how you—

You like to just yell at people—

but we actually engage with other countries and with the ICRC on this. I again say that the Geneva conventions and international humanitarian law remain central to how Australia seeks to engage with the world and central to the world that Australia advocates for. In the shadow of the worst war the world has known, the international community came together to establish principles of humanitarian law, and we will always seek to defend them. (Time expired)

Honourable senators interjecting—