Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:16): I first say that, given some of the events this week, I encourage all in here not to continue to promulgate some of the disinformation on social media. There's been a lot of disinformation on social media about what Australia is doing. I am advised that Australia has not supplied weapons to Israel since the Hamas-Israel conflict began and I am advised that that has been the case for at least the last five years. I also make the point—and I trust that the senators down that end might do their part to push back on this disinformation—that the Australian government has not had any involvement in the conduct of the military conduct in Gaza. Given some of the misinformation on social media and the distress, anger and, frankly violent behaviour that we have seen, I trust that those in positions of authority might exercise—I'm not surprised you take a point of order at that! The PRESIDENT: Senator Shoebridge? Senator Shoebridge: My point of order is about relevance. The question was about whether or not Australia is or will be supplying F-35 parts to the state of Israel. The minister's response is not relevant. The PRESIDENT: The minister is being relevant. Senator WONG: [inaudible] that, when he is asked to consider his responsibilities to the chamber, he takes a point of order, and he's doing it again. Senator Shoebridge: The minister is now (a) making a personal reflection and (b) clearly being not relevant to the question, which is: is or will Australia be supplying F-35 parts to the state of Israel? The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Shoebridge. I will draw the minister back to the question, and the minister was not making a personal reflection. Senator WONG: If we want to talk about personal reflections, we might want to go back to yesterday, but I'm happy to respond— The PRESIDENT: Minister, please resume your seat. I have Senator Shoebridge on his feet. Senator Shoebridge? Senator Shoebridge: The minister flouted your ruling and sought to again not be relevant and reduce to mudslinging. The PRESIDENT: Senator Shoebridge, resume your seat. Senator Watt interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Senator Watt, I am responding. The minister had just stood again and begun her response. Minister, please continue. Senator WONG: I'm just waiting for you to stand before I speak, because you just like to do that! Do you want to do that? Come on! The PRESIDENT: Minister Wong, I am going to draw you back to the question Senator WONG: I responded to your question, I think, in the first 20 seconds—that the advice I have from Defence is that Australia has not supplied weapons to Israel since the conflict began—and I again reiterate that there is a lot of disinformation on social media. I invite Senator Shoebridge and his leader to perhaps make sure they don't promulgate it as well. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Shoebridge, first supplementary?