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

We all understand the horror of the use of nuclear weapons. The way you posited the question, Senator Pocock, suggested that that's the basis on which we made the decision we made. I have explained to you the framework that we're operating under. I think it's problematic that people choose not to put impetus behind the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; that is the treaty that has the nuclear parties as part of it, and we all know that nuclear armed states must be part of any nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime.

I understand why there are advocates, including from civil society, who want the TPNW. We all share that aspiration. But we also know that there has to be verification and there has to be— (Time expired)