Australia politics live: Khawaja gets meeting with PM on gambling ads he thought was cancelled; ATO whistleblower avoids jail

Published on August 28, 2025 at 01:21 AM
Australia politics live: Khawaja gets meeting with PM on gambling ads he thought was cancelled; ATO whistleblower avoids jail

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Coalition offered support to list IRGC as terrorist group in last parliament, James Paterson says

James Paterson says the opposition offered bipartisan support to change the criminal code to allow the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to be listed as a terrorist organisation in the last parliament.

We knew they were intervening in our domestic politics. We knew that they were surveilling Iranian dissident communities and diaspora communities. That was reason enough to list them, and we shouldn’t have required any further evidence to do so.

It would have to demand even further action from the Albanese government than what they have done already.

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