Ms Catherine King (Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

Again, I said, for context, my office had received multiple media requests about the women who were escorted off the Qatar Airways flight in Doha and subject to invasive searches and their views on the air services agreement requests from Qatar. We responded to the media requests on 18 July, by which point the Prime Minister was aware of the decision that I had made.

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