Senate debates

Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Questions without Notice

Minister for Foreign Affairs

2:47 pm

Photo of Marise PayneMarise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I was responding, I thought, directly to a number of the observations that Senator Wong made in her question. Specifically, if she wishes, in relation to the question of disinformation, what the government has made clear is the threat that disinformation presents, no matter who perpetrates it, to the orderly provision of information in communities—particularly in the context of a pandemic. The critical impact we have seen—the 131 countries that have drawn together with the European Union on a motion drafted by Latvia on the infodemic—is absolutely symbolic of those concerns and of our concern in relation to—

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