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

I first say that, given some of the events this week, I encourage all in here not to continue to promulgate some of the disinformation on social media. There's been a lot of disinformation on social media about what Australia is doing. I am advised that Australia has not supplied weapons to Israel since the Hamas-Israel conflict began and I am advised that that has been the case for at least the last five years.

I also make the point—and I trust that the senators down that end might do their part to push back on this disinformation—that the Australian government has not had any involvement in the conduct of the military conduct in Gaza. Given some of the misinformation on social media and the distress, anger and, frankly violent behaviour that we have seen, I trust that those in positions of authority might exercise—I'm not surprised you take a point of order at that!