Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I utterly reject Senator Brown's characterisation of Aust­ralia's response. We have taken leading action in a whole range of areas, of which I have just detailed many, and we continue to maintain publicly that the regime should cease shooting and killing its own citizens. So I utterly reject the basis of the question which you put to us, Senator Brown.