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SenateMonday 22 June 2026

QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:18): With respect, Senator, I have watched some of your party—not all of you, but some of your party—engage in ensuring that anger rises. I've watched some of your party engaging in rhetoric which is divisive. I've watched some of your party engaging in the politics of anger and division.

I have actually said—and I think that some of your party have been very angry with me—that it was the same tactic as One Nation or Peter Dutton used. So, if you want to talk about not using anger and fuelling anger and division to try and progress your political fortunes, I hope the Greens might consider their own position and how they operate. Honourable senators interjecting— Senator WONG: Here we are, on cue.

This is my point. You say, 'We want to try and bring people together and we are open to a civil discussion about differences, but we do not believe'— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Waters, second supplementary?

SourceSenate, Monday 22 June 2026 — official recordTA-260622-senate-9b445244af00:s149