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Liberal MP Garth Hamilton has been pursuing One Nation for some time now. He's asked what he made of Pauline Hanson's attack on a Guardian Australia reporter. 

The journalist asked about Hanson's daughter Lee, and her job as an adviser to a NSW senator despite her living in Tasmania. 

Hamilton jokes he's probably going to surprise people by defending the Guardian reporter because Hanson's attack doesn't pass the pub test. 

"I thought that was a very fair question. It's a very fair question. Pauline Hanson has anointed her daughter as the successor of her party, even though she doesn't hold political office," he tells Afternoon Briefing. 

Liberal senator Paul Scarr is also pushing back against the idea of an Australian monoculture. 

He's asked how he thinks the Coalition should tackle Pauline Hanson's rhetoric. 

"I think we just need to continue putting forward considered and measured policies to address issues and demonstrate to the Australian people that we've heard their concerns with respect to a whole raft of issues, including the rate of immigration and also including cost-of-living issues," he says. 

On immigration, he says he'd like to see better long and medium term planning. He also wants a better explanation of that planning and taking people on the journey to earn the social licence. 

"I really want us to try and address these issues today and come up with sustainable solutions," he says. 

During her speech today, Pauline Hanson recalled her attempt in the Senate to secure a plebiscite on immigration numbers, calling out a comment by Liberal senator Paul Scarr. 

Scarr, who was previously the shadow immigration minister under Sussan Ley, argued at the time it was too complex to put to the Australian people. 

The senator stands by his remarks and tells Afternoon Briefing we should be "on guard against those who are calling for simplistic solutions". 

"The issues relating to immigration impact different cohorts of migrants. You have family reunion. You have our New Zealand brothers and sisters who have rights to come across the Tasman to Australia," he says. 

"You have skilled migration, our humanitarian intake. You've got different concerns in regional areas compared to urban areas. So it is a complicated issue and I think we need to be on guard against those who are calling for simplistic solutions, the siren call of simplistic solutions, which in my view, won't be in our national interest."

Pauline Hanson also called for an overhaul of industrial relations, saying it is too hard to sack workers. 

It's probably no surprise that Matt Thistlethwaite disagrees with that statement. He says that is "One Nation's true colours are really coming through". 

"That comment that Australian workers have too many rights, and their conditions are too high in Australia, I think is completely wrong," he says. 

"We've put in place a set of conditions that balance business opportunities, but at the same time provide decent wages and conditions for workers."

Labor's Matt Thistlethwaite has rebuked Pauline Hanson's call for Australia to be a "monoculture". 

He says Australia would be "very, very boring" if we adopted that stance. 

"Imagine how boring our restaurants would be in Australia again if we were all eating meat and three veg and spaghetti out of a can," he tells Afternoon Briefing. 

On Hanson's view that Australians should be speaking English at home, the frontbencher disagreed and noted that when people migrate to Australia they are required to have English skills. 

"But most of those people will continue to speak their native language. And I don't see a problem with that at all. In fact, it's an advantage to Australia if members of our population can speak more than one language."

Assistant Foreign Minister Matt Thistlethwaite is the first guest on Afternoon Briefing today. 

Earlier today, Australia downgraded travel warnings for Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Thistlethwaite says given the agreement between the US and Iran, the government saw fit to lower the alert from  Level 4 "Do Not Travel" to Level 3 "Reconsider your need to travel".

"Now, this doesn't mean that there's no danger associated with travel to those countries. It really means that unless the travel is essential, you should continue to ... reconsider the need to travel," he says. 

That also means transiting through those nations. 

The foreign minister of Papua New Guinea has backed the idea of a regional security pact, which has been floated by the Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale.

Wale raised the idea during his meetings with Anthony Albanese in Canberra earlier this month, the ABC has learned.

Justin Tkatchenko fielded a question on the proposal after holding a meeting with Foreign Minister Penny Wong in Adelaide today.

The two countries signed the historic Puk Puk defence treaty last year, and Tkatchenko said PNG Prime Minister James Marape would travel to Sydney in the coming weeks to meet Albanese and celebrate it coming into force.

Tkatchenko said he was happy to see Australia signing multiple new treaties and strategic pacts across the region.

"The historical alliance we now have for Australia and Papua New Guinea sets the tone and also sets the precedent for other countries now following suit," he said.

"So yeah, it's a great idea for all of us to work together as one."

The foreign minister didn't offer an opinion on the idea of a regional agreement, but reiterated that Australia believed that the Pacific should take the lead on its own security.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has just held a press conference, responding to Pauline Hanson's address to the National Press Club. 

She called the speech "deplorable" and described it as the One Nation leader showing "she's the same old crank she's always been". 

"The same old racism, same old division, same old fear, same old nastiness. A leopard never changes its spots. Pauline Hanson said herself today that she has not changed," Hanson-Young told reporters in Melbourne. 

Foreign Minister Penny Wong and her Papua New Guinea counterpart Justin Tkatchenko say they're optimistic that fuel shocks in the Pacific will ease rapidly now there's the chance of a peace deal in the Middle East.

Pacific nations remain heavily dependent on diesel, and while they haven't faced any fuel shortages due to the Strait of Hormuz closure, the soaring oil price has already taken a toll on household and government budgets.

PNG has announced a large subsidy package to help shield consumers from the price impact, but that is due to run out in the next two weeks.

Tkatchenko said he was confident PNG would be fine, given the conflict seemed to be coming to an end.

"Now that Trump and (Iran) have come to some sort of agreement, which we look forward to seeing in detail, it's going to make it so much easier for all of us," he said.

Wong said she assumed there would still be a "tail to the disruption" as markets restocked "but we're certainly hopeful that we will see fuel supplies returning to normal in the very near future".

"That would be a good thing for people of our region and the people of Australia," she said.