Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In the days immediately after the shooting down of MH17 by Russian backed rebels—in the days when those Russian backed rebels were refusing to release the parties to the international community—we did talk to our Dutch friends about what might be done to ensure that those parties came back to their loved ones. We did talk to the Dutch about this, as the Australian people would have expected. We were not going to allow dead Australians to be violated by Russian backed rebels.

Government members: Hear! Hear!

We were going to stand up for the rights of their families and we will never—

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