Senate debates Questions without Notice

Gender and Sexual Orientation


Penny Wong

Penny Wong SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs

2:10 pm

I will take that interjection about protecting the rights of women and girls. I'd welcome, for example, you condemning some of the comments made—I think, just in the last 24 hours—around consent in marriage, and that you don't need consent in marriage. I'd welcome that. I'd welcome you actually backing in some of the work we do in developing countries in relation to the rights of women and girls. I'd welcome you, on the International Day of the Girl Child on 11 October, standing up and giving bipartisan support to development assistance so we can actually work to prevent child marriage and to provide girls with education. Then I might take you seriously, and we might take you seriously, and women and girls around this country might take you seriously when it comes to issues of equality and respect.

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