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

 I need to say it more often—that the Greens don't support AUKUS? I know that you don't support AUKUS. Obviously, the question is motivated from the perspective of someone who doesn't actually think that this is a good thing for the country. We do. There has been a lot of work that has been undertaken, including in the US. I acknowledge the work of Ambassador Rudd in working with both sides of politics in the US to ensure that domestic legislation was passed in really quite extraordinary time frames to try to lock in as much progress as is possible.

The reason we support AUKUS is that we think it is central to the protection of the nation. Of course, it would be good to live in a world where we didn't need these sorts of hard decisions.