Joint media release: Senator James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Cyber Security and Countering Foreign Interference Senator Claire Chandler, Assistant Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs The Coalition strongly welcomes today’s application of targeted sanctions by the Australian Government against certain individuals responsible for horrific human rights abuses. The Magnitsky-style sanctions applied upon 13 individuals…
DetailsJoint media release The Hon Peter Dutton MP, Leader of the Opposition The Coalition welcomes the appointment of Ms Kerri Hartland as Director-General of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS). With an eminent and distinguished career in the Australian Public Service and the private sector, Ms Hartland is well-placed to deliver the national security leadership…
DetailsJoint media release: Senator James Paterson, Shadow Minister for Cyber Security and Countering Foreign Interference Senator Claire Chandler, Assistant Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs Today, one year has passed since Australia’s Magnitsky-style and other thematic sanctions laws came into effect. The new laws, passed by the Coalition with bipartisan support, enable Australia to…
DetailsEnding what has been a sorry saga, the Coalition welcomes the Albanese Government’s backflip to reinstate the fourth Estimates week in the Parliamentary Sitting Calendar for 2023. The attempt to axe a week of Senate estimates would never have happened in the first place if the Albanese Government was genuine in its claimed belief in…
DetailsThe Coalition and Senate crossbench will not tolerate the Albanese Government’s attempt to push through a Parliamentary Sitting Calendar for 2023 without the usual four weeks of Senate estimates. The Opposition, along with the cross-bench, have written to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong, stating that the Albanese Government must reinsert…
DetailsToday, hypocrisy is at its finest with the Albanese Government’s complete disregard for accountability on full display with the release of the Parliamentary Sitting Calendar for 2023. The absurdity of scrapping the first week of Estimates for the Senate is a deliberate avoidance of transparency by the Albanese Government. Four Estimates weeks in…
DetailsJoint media release Senator Claire Chandler, Assistant Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs The Federal Opposition welcomes the decisions taken in the special session of the UN Human Rights Council on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The horrific human rights abuses and violence in Iran since the death of Mahsa…
DetailsThe Coalition welcomes the verdict of the District Court of the Hague in the Netherlands finding three pro-Russian individuals guilty of downing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. We welcome the Court imposing sentences of life imprisonment for these crimes and the finding that the Russian Federation controlled the separatist forces guilty of the murder of the…
DetailsJoint statement with The Hon Michael McCormack MP, Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific The Coalition welcomes the release and return back to Australia of Professor Sean Turnell. He should never have been detained in the first place. Professor Turnell’s release and return home finally brings to an end what, for many,…
DetailsToday marks 20 years since the horrific Bali Bombings on the night of 12 October 2002. 202 people from more than 20 countries tragically lost their lives. Over 100 people suffered irreparable injury from the blasts and fire that followed. Australia suffered the greatest toll with 88 Australians losing their lives. The grief…
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