Foreign Minister Penny Wong has blasted One Nation after a senator belonging to the party grilled her over the Prime Minister’s chaotic visit to Lakemba Mosque.

Senator Malcolm Roberts raised the March 20 incident during a fiery Question Time this week.

The confrontation erupted when Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke attended Eid prayers at the mosque. Parts of the crowd were hostile and the PM was heckled, booed and insulted.

Video online shows worshippers shouted ‘Get out!’, accused the PM of being a ‘genocide supporter,’ and one man yelled ‘putrid dog.’ Security rushed Albanese away as people surged towards him.

Roberts used the scenes to question whether the Prime Minister felt safe. 

‘Videos posted of the incident… show, by my count, 20 people in the security team, including uniformed officers from NSW Police who took up a position inside,’ he said.

Roberts claimed Albanese had ‘never needed a 20‑person security detail to attend a Christian church’ or meet ‘everyday Australians’, but now needed heavy protection in Lakemba. He then echoed Pauline Hanson’s comments about the suburb being ‘unwelcoming’. 

‘One Nation leader, Senator Hanson, remarked only three weeks ago that Lakemba wasn’t safe for everyday Australians,’ he said. 

‘If the Prime Minister organised a 20‑person security detail… doesn’t that prove the Prime Minister believed Lakemba mosque was not a safe place for him to visit?’

Penny Wong (pictured) slammed the Liberals for preferencing One Nation in the SA election

MPs erupted, yelling ‘shame!’ across the chamber.

Wong fired back. ‘I’m sorry, I disagree with most of what is included in your question,’ she said. 

She argued that many Australians were ‘rightly distressed by the conflict in Gaza, the loss of life,’ but insisted politicians should avoid ‘turning up the temperature’ or ‘making people angry’.

She also took a swipe at the Greens for doing so moments earlier and defended Albanese’s mosque visit as leadership. 

‘It is a good thing for the Prime Minister of the country to go to a mosque and to engage with Australian Muslims… That is about our social cohesion.’

She added: ‘We should… work to protect a society where we can have differences of views… without anger, and without division.’

Roberts pushed again: ‘My question was about whether or not the Prime Minister felt safe. Is it true, Minister, that social cohesion in the hands of the Albanese government simply means surrendering to radical Islam?’

That line sent Wong over the edge, with her unleashing on the Liberal Party for preferencing One Nation in the South Australian election, which is expected to help the party secure up to four lower‑house seats.

One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts (pictured) asked if Labor had surrendered to ‘radical Islam’ 

‘I do hope that members of the Liberal Party listen to that question and recognise that the result in South Australia… is fueled by your preferences,’ Wong snapped.

‘You are delivering them votes and seats… I hope you think about that. The party that is now cannibalising you, you are fueling their support.’

Wong then slammed Roberts’ claim about ‘everyday Australians.’

‘Everyday Australians come from all walks of life, all faiths, all backgrounds… Hindus, Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, members of the Jewish community.’

Despite the uproar, Albanese later downplayed the mosque confrontation.

He insisted the visit was ‘incredibly positive’ aside from ‘a couple of hecklers in a crowd of 30,000.’