Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Australia has a stringent export control framework. It is designed to ensure that military and dual-use items that are exported from Australia are used responsibly. No arms have been supplied to Israel over the course of the last five years. The Deputy Prime Minister said, 'Australia's defence export control regime is one which is thorough and detailed as it applies to defence exports or dual-use items to anywhere in the world.' This position that's been advanced, once again, is not a serious position. It's on that basis that I move:

That the question be now put.