First crossbench question comes from Helen Haines – directed to Defence Minister Richard Marles. After a preamble about transparency, the Member for Indi gets straight to the point.

Helen Haines:

Minister, can you guarantee Australia is not complicit in war crimes in Gaza?

Richard Marles:

I can absolutely guarantee that Australia is not complicit in the way in which you describe. I can also say that Australia is not making weapons in this country and supplying them to Israel. We have made that clear on multiple occasions. I also reject the proposition that we are not transparent in the way in which all of this is reported. I think we have been incredibly transparent in terms of the way in which we engage in all of our controlled exports around the world and the role that our Defence industry plays around the world. We are not making weapons for Israel.